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

Samuel Smiles

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Brave Follow Himself Man Weakness
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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Business Focus Oneself
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Example Leaving Legacy Man
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
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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Blame Blind Fortune Industry Practice
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
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
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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