Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
SAMUEL SMILESThe shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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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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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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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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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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