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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Samuel Smiles

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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Greatness Human Persistence Success True Work
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Discover Failure Finding Learning Mistake Wisdom
The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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Book Goodness Greatness Intellectual Live Oneself Voice
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
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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Children Greatness Instruction
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 truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit
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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Accomplishment Burden Glory Hard Work Honor
Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Grace Heart Humanity Solace Woman
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
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
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

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