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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Samuel Smiles

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Answer Blame Terrible World
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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Children Greatness Instruction
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Compromise Endurance Government Marriage Patience Repair
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Brave Follow Himself Man Weakness
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
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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Best Influential Long Virtue
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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Cure Domestic Evil Politics Reform
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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Cheap Heart Kindness Possible Purse Sacrifice
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Burden Hope Journey Ourselves Shadow Sun
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
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Detail Energy Force Life Man Station
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake

Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

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