It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
SAMUEL SMILESThe brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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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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The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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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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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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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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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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