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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

Samuel Smiles

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Discover Failure Finding Learning Mistake Wisdom
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
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
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Bright Cheer Excellence Heart Quality
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
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
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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Angel Flower Mindset Open Pleasure
Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Compare Greatness Life Limitation Man Opportunity
All life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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Competition Eat Himself Life Necessary Struggle Work
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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Forever Health Lost Medicine Replacement Temper Wealth

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