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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

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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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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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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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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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.

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