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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

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
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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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Act Man Respect Weight Word
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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Character Greatness Himself Leadership
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Character is itself a fortune.
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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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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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Greatness Human Persistence Road Spirit Success True
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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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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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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