The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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 reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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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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Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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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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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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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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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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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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The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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