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.
SAMUEL SMILESSuccess 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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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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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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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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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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