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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Samuel Smiles

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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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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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Business Focus Oneself
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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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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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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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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