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

Samuel Smiles

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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Action Blessing Fortune Quite
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
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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Difficult Discover Establishment Greatness Sorrow Thinking
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
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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Blame Blind Fortune Industry Practice
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Difficult Greatness Man Reach Struggle Suffering Trial Work
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
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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Greatness Lesson Life Man Noble Record
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Discover Failure Finding Learning Mistake Wisdom
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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Book Goodness Greatness Intellectual Live Oneself Voice
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing

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