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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

Samuel Smiles

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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”

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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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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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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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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Article
Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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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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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
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Character is itself a fortune.

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Character is itself a fortune.
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Fortune
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.

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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Enthusiasm
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

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