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

Samuel Smiles

Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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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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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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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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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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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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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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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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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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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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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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