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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

Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Application Finding Karma Luck Man Neglect
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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Pursuit Success Worth
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
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Article Character Difficult Mistake
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
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
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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Greatness Human Persistence Success True Work
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
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
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Believe Patience Poor Sacrifice Woman World
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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Issue Mindset Nation Opinion World

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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