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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

Samuel Smiles

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
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
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
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Age Author Greatness Mindset Time
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Answer Blame Terrible World
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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Book Goodness Greatness Intellectual Live Oneself Voice
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
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
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Bright Cheer Excellence Heart Quality

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

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