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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

Samuel Smiles

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Achievement Decision Difficult Effort Station
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Burden Hope Journey Ourselves Shadow Sun
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
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Character Control Courage Essence Form Primary
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
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Butterfly Color Learning Service Study
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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Faith Fashion Grandmother Mother
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Discipline Experience Goodness Sense Wisdom
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Advantage Fall Man Opportunity Way
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

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