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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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  Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

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  Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

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  It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

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  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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