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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Samuel Smiles

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
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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Discover Failure Finding Learning Mistake Wisdom
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Compare Greatness Life Limitation Man Opportunity
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
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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Best Influential Long Virtue
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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Himself Man Mountain Raise Secure World
Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Advantage Fall Man Opportunity Way
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Act Man Respect Weight Word
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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Creation Enough Finding Man Opportunity Way
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Man Nation Purity Strength

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

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