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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.

Samuel Smiles

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Compare Greatness Life Limitation Man Opportunity
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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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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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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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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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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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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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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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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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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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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