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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Samuel Smiles

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
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
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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Affect Better Economy Greatness Industry Law Right
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
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
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
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Admire Character Command Genius Heart Life Respect Secure
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
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
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
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing

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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