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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Samuel Smiles

Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Advantage Fall Man Opportunity Way
The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Difficult Discover Establishment Greatness Sorrow Thinking
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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Action Blessing Fortune Quite
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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Blame Blind Fortune Industry Practice
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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Gift Himself Hope Miracle Mom Power Success
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
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
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Man Nation Purity Strength
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
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Distance Excellence Industrial Object Principle
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

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