Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
SAMUEL SMILESIt 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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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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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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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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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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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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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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With will one can do anything.
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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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