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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Samuel Smiles

Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
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
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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Creation Enough Finding Man Opportunity Way
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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Greatness Ignorance Moral Rule Selfish Slave Vice
One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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Faith Fashion Grandmother Mother
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.
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Bed Foundation Lying Pregnant
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

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