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

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
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Article Character Difficult Mistake
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Example Leaving Legacy Man
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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Action Goodness Greatness World
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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Best Influential Long Virtue
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
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
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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Faith Fashion Grandmother Mother
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
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
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Book Experience Learning Nature Value Wisdom
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
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Admire Character Command Genius Heart Life Respect Secure
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property

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