Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
SAMUEL SMILESThis extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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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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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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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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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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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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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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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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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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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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