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

Samuel Smiles

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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The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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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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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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