The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
SAMUEL SMILES
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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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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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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