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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

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
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
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
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
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Age Author Greatness Mindset Time
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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Greatness Lesson Life Man Noble Record
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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Bright Darkness Happiness Side
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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Greatness Ignorance Moral Rule Selfish Slave Vice
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
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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Action Blessing Fortune Quite
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Burden Glory Hard Work Honor
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Example Leaving Legacy Man

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