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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

Samuel Smiles

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Discipline Instruction Life Nature Practice Reality Theory Wisdom
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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Creation Enough Finding Man Opportunity Way
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Character Firm Person Possession Stand World
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
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
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
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
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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Business Life Observation Pursuit Secret Success
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
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise

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