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

Samuel Smiles

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Active Best Help Man Nature Necessary
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
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
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Burden Hope Journey Ourselves Shadow Sun
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
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
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
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Character Element Energy Force Greatness Miracle Production
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
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
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Achievement Best Kind Progress Satisfaction Slow Walk

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

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