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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

Samuel Smiles

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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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 brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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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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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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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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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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