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.
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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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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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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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 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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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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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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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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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