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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Samuel Smiles

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
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
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Answer Blame Terrible World
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
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
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
Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Grace Heart Humanity Solace Woman
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
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
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
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
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
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
The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
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Government Level Nation People

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

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