Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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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 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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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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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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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 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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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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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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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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The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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