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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

Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Business Focus Oneself
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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Civilization Manufacture Metal Soul
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Butterfly Color Learning Service Study
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
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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Achievement Decision Difficult Effort Station
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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Bright Darkness Happiness Side
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
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Attention Industry Man Old Perseverance Possession Travel Understand Wisdom
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

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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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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