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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Samuel Smiles

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
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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Action Blessing Fortune Quite
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
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Book Experience Learning Nature Value Wisdom
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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Clothes Feeling Himself Man Mindset Noble Respect
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
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
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
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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Better Character Charge Hands Worst
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
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
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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