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.
SAMUEL SMILESMen often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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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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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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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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