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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

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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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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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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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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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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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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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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