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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Samuel Smiles

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Grace Heart Humanity Solace Woman
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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Affect Better Economy Greatness Industry Law Right
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
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
The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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Culture Education Man Teacher
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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Character Greatness Himself Leadership
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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Angel Flower Mindset Open Pleasure
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
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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Greatness Human Persistence Success True Work

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