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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Samuel Smiles

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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Cheap Heart Kindness Possible Purse Sacrifice
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Discipline Instruction Life Nature Practice Reality Theory Wisdom
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
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Detail Energy Force Life Man Station
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
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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Blame Blind Fortune Industry Practice
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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Best Education Practice Work
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Burden Hope Journey Ourselves Shadow Sun
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
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
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Example Leaving Legacy Man
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True

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