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

Samuel Smiles

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Discipline Experience Goodness Sense Wisdom
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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Best Education Practice Work
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Book Experience Learning Nature Value Wisdom
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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Generous Library Possession Wealth
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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Accomplishment Oneself Person Power Time
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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Better Character Charge Hands Worst
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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Bright Darkness Happiness Side
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Achievement Decision Difficult Effort Station
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
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
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Industry National Progress Selfish

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