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

Samuel Smiles

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
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
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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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Industry National Progress Selfish
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
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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Creation Health Intelligence People Religion Spirit Virtue Work
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Discipline Family Home Life Training Women
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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