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 SMILESSelf-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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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 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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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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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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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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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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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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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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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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