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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Samuel Smiles

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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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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Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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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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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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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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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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With will one can do anything.
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One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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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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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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