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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

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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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.

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