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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

Samuel Smiles

Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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Gift Himself Hope Miracle Mom Power Success
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
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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Best Better Himself Leaving Man Teaching
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
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
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Brave Follow Himself Man Weakness
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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Culture Education Man Teacher
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Application Finding Karma Luck Man Neglect
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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