Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
SAMUEL SMILESThe possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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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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Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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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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