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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Samuel Smiles

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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Civilization Manufacture Metal Soul
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Grace Heart Humanity Solace Woman
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
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
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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Cure Domestic Evil Politics Reform
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
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Article Character Difficult Mistake
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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Greatness Human Persistence Road Spirit Success True
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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Generous Library Possession Wealth
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

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