The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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All life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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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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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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