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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Samuel Smiles

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Burden Hope Journey Ourselves Shadow Sun
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Bright Cheer Excellence Heart Quality
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Discipline Family Home Life Training Women
The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Difficult Discover Establishment Greatness Sorrow Thinking
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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Generous Library Possession Wealth
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Character Firm Person Possession Stand World
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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Forever Health Lost Medicine Replacement Temper Wealth
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Article Character Difficult Mistake
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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Father Knowledge Learning Life Value
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake

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