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

Samuel Smiles

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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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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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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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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Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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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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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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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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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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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

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