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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Samuel Smiles

Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Advantage Fall Man Opportunity Way
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Admire Claim Rich Vulgar
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
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
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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Business Life Observation Pursuit Secret Success
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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Blame Blind Fortune Industry Practice
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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Pursuit Success Worth
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Distance Excellence Industrial Object Principle
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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Gift Himself Hope Miracle Mom Power Success
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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Achievement Battle Difficult Honor Life Respect Struggle Success
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

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