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

Samuel Smiles

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
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Attention Industry Man Old Perseverance Possession Travel Understand Wisdom
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
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
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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Himself Man Mountain Raise Secure World
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
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

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

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