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

Samuel Smiles

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Advantage Fall Man Opportunity Way
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Forever Health Lost Medicine Replacement Temper Wealth
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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Pursuit Success Worth
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
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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Believe Patience Poor Sacrifice Woman World
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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Best Education Practice Work
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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Best Influential Long Virtue
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
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Bright Cheer Excellence Heart Quality
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Answer Blame Terrible World
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
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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