The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
SAMUEL SMILESA fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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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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Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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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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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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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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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 spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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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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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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