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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Samuel Smiles

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
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
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
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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Forever Health Lost Medicine Replacement Temper Wealth
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Character Firm Person Possession Stand World
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Answer Blame Terrible World
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
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
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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Detail Energy Force Life Man Station
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
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

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

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