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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

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Article Character Difficult Mistake
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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Issue Mindset Nation Opinion World
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
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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Better Character Charge Hands Worst
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
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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Condition Experience Form Improvement Institution Personal Question Service
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
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
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
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Believe Patience Poor Sacrifice Woman World
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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Best Better Himself Leaving Man Teaching

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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