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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.

Samuel Smiles

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
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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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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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Distance Excellence Industrial Object Principle
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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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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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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