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

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  Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

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  Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

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  It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

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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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  Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

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  Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.

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  Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

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  The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

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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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  Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

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  Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.

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  He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

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

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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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