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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

Samuel Smiles

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
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
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
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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Angel Flower Mindset Open Pleasure
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
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Admire Claim Rich Vulgar
Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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Condition Experience Form Improvement Institution Personal Question Service
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Industry National Progress Selfish
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Discipline Family Home Life Training Women
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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Civilization Manufacture Metal Soul

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