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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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Best Better Himself Leaving Man Teaching
Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
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
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Act Man Respect Weight Word
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Difficult Greatness Man Reach Struggle Suffering Trial Work
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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Bright Darkness Happiness Side
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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Book Experience Learning Nature Value Wisdom
Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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Children Commitment Evil Ignorance Woman Yourself
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
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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Affect Better Economy Greatness Industry Law Right
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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Accomplishment Oneself Person Power Time

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

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