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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Samuel Smiles

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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Affect Better Economy Greatness Industry Law Right
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
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
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
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
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Discipline Family Home Life Training Women
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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Culture Education Man Teacher
It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Character Element Energy Force Greatness Miracle Production
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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Advice Failure Man Mistake Success Teaching
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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Cheap Heart Kindness Possible Purse Sacrifice
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
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

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

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