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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Samuel Smiles

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
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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Attention Industry Man Old Perseverance Possession Travel Understand Wisdom
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Answer Blame Terrible World
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Achievement Best Kind Progress Satisfaction Slow Walk
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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Cure Domestic Evil Politics Reform
Stothard 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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Butterfly Color Learning Service Study
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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Civilization Manufacture Metal Soul
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Brave Follow Himself Man Weakness
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
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 apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Article Character Difficult Mistake

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