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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

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Courage Discipline Man Obedience Submission
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Character Firm Person Possession Stand World
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
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
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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Character Greatness Himself Leadership
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to “scour the anchor.
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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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