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

Samuel Smiles

Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
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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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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
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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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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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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The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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