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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

Samuel Smiles

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Compromise Endurance Government Marriage Patience Repair
The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Difficult Discover Establishment Greatness Sorrow Thinking
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Discipline Experience Goodness Sense Wisdom
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Act Man Respect Weight Word
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
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
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Brave Follow Himself Man Weakness
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Character Control Courage Essence Form Primary
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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Best Education Practice Work
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

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

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