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

Samuel Smiles

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
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
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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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 great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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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
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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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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Difficult Engagement Fight Men Ourselves
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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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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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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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
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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