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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Samuel Smiles

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
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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Pursuit Success Worth
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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Action Blessing Fortune Quite
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Admire Claim Rich Vulgar
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
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Believe Patience Poor Sacrifice Woman World
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Man Nation Purity Strength
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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Issue Mindset Nation Opinion World
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
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
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Difficult Invention Mom Necessary School

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