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

Samuel Smiles

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
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Active Best Help Man Nature Necessary
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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Book Experience Learning Nature Value Wisdom
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
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Believe Patience Poor Sacrifice Woman World
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Bright Cheer Excellence Heart Quality
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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Business Life Observation Pursuit Secret Success
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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Greatness Ignorance Moral Rule Selfish Slave Vice
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
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Courage Ourselves Roman Virtue Word

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