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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

Samuel Smiles

Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
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
Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Advantage Fall Man Opportunity Way
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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Angel Flower Mindset Open Pleasure
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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Clothes Feeling Himself Man Mindset Noble Respect
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Industry National Progress Selfish
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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Action Blessing Fortune Quite
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Compromise Endurance Government Marriage Patience Repair
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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Best Education Practice Work
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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Greatness Human Persistence Success True Work
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Example Leaving Legacy Man
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
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
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man

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