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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

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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Greatness Lesson Life Man Noble Record
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 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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Issue Mindset Nation Opinion World
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
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
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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Advice Failure Man Mistake Success Teaching
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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Cure Domestic Evil Politics Reform
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
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
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
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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Creation Enough Finding Man Opportunity Way

Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

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