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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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Children Greatness Instruction
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
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 shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short 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
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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Accomplishment Oneself Person Power Time
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Industry National Progress Selfish
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to “scour the anchor.
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Employment Issue Man Observation
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Book Experience Learning Nature Value Wisdom
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

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