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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Samuel Smiles

The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Difficult Discover Establishment Greatness Sorrow Thinking
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Forever Health Lost Medicine Replacement Temper Wealth
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Burden Glory Hard Work Honor
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
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
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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Better Character Charge Hands Worst
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Attention Industry Man Old Perseverance Possession Travel Understand Wisdom
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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Bright Darkness Happiness Side

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