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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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  If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.

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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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  Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

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  For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

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  Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

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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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  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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  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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  Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

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  The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

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  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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  Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

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  This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

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  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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  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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