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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

Samuel Smiles

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
Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Grace Heart Humanity Solace Woman
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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Greatness Lesson Life Man Noble Record
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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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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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

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