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

Samuel Smiles

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Courage Discipline Man Obedience Submission
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Achievement Best Kind Progress Satisfaction Slow Walk
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Character Firm Person Possession Stand World
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
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
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Father Knowledge Learning Life Value
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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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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Act Man Respect Weight Word
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
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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Accomplishment Oneself Person Power Time
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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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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All life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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Competition Eat Himself Life Necessary Struggle Work
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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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

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