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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Man Nation Purity Strength
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Forever Health Lost Medicine Replacement Temper Wealth
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
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 Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
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Courage Ourselves Roman Virtue Word
Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Advantage Fall Man Opportunity Way
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
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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Generous Library Possession Wealth
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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Cheap Heart Kindness Possible Purse Sacrifice
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
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

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

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