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The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.

Samuel Smiles

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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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  Character is itself a fortune.

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  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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  Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

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  Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

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  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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  Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

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  Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”

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  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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  The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

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  Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

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  Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

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  Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

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