Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.

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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.

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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

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Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.
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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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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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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 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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Self-control is only courage under another form.

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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Success 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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Success 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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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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With will one can do anything.

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With will one can do anything.
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Character is itself a fortune.

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Character is itself a fortune.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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