Self-control is only courage under another form.
SAMUEL SMILESStothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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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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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
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All life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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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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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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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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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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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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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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