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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Samuel Smiles

Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Business Focus Oneself
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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Cheap Heart Kindness Possible Purse Sacrifice
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
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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Courage Ourselves Roman Virtue Word
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Brave Follow Himself Man Weakness
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Act Man Respect Weight Word
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Character Firm Person Possession Stand World
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

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