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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

Samuel Smiles

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to “scour the anchor.
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Employment Issue Man Observation
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
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Discover Failure Finding Learning Mistake Wisdom
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
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Father Knowledge Learning Life Value
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
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
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
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Achievement Best Kind Progress Satisfaction Slow Walk
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
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
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Admire Claim Rich Vulgar

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