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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

Samuel Smiles

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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Action Goodness Greatness World
Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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Children Commitment Evil Ignorance Woman Yourself
It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Character Element Energy Force Greatness Miracle Production
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
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
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Discipline Experience Goodness Sense Wisdom
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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Discipline Instruction Life Nature Practice Reality Theory Wisdom
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite

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