Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
SAMUEL SMILESCecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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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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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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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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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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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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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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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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The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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