The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
SAMUEL SMILESCharacter is itself a fortune.
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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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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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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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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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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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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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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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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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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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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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