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

Samuel Smiles

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Compromise Endurance Government Marriage Patience Repair
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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Action Goodness Greatness World
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
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
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Discipline Instruction Life Nature Practice Reality Theory Wisdom
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
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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Creation Enough Finding Man Opportunity Way
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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Business Life Observation Pursuit Secret Success
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Discipline Experience Goodness Sense Wisdom

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