The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
SAMUEL SMILESWoman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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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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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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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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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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