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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.

Samuel Smiles

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Application Finding Karma Luck Man Neglect
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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Cheap Heart Kindness Possible Purse Sacrifice
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
All life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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Competition Eat Himself Life Necessary Struggle Work
It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Character Element Energy Force Greatness Miracle Production
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Answer Blame Terrible World
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Character Control Courage Essence Form Primary
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Act Man Respect Weight Word
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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Faith Fashion Grandmother Mother
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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Creation Health Intelligence People Religion Spirit Virtue Work
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training

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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