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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Samuel Smiles

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
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Courage Ourselves Roman Virtue Word
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Example Leaving Legacy Man
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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Best Better Himself Leaving Man Teaching
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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Issue Mindset Nation Opinion World
Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Difficult Greatness Man Reach Struggle Suffering Trial Work
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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Condition Experience Form Improvement Institution Personal Question Service
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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Greatness Human Persistence Success True Work
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Act Man Respect Weight Word
It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Achievement Decision Difficult Effort Station
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation

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