Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
SAMUEL SMILESThere is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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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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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 very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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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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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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