He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILESBiographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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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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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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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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Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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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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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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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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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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