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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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Bright Darkness Happiness Side
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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Better Character Charge Hands Worst
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Discipline Family Home Life Training Women
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Discipline Experience Goodness Sense Wisdom
The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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Creation Health Intelligence People Religion Spirit Virtue Work
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
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Government Level Nation People
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves

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