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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.

Samuel Smiles

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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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
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Courage Ourselves Roman Virtue Word
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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Blame Blind Fortune Industry Practice
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Enjoyment Labour Reward
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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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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Faith Fashion Grandmother Mother
Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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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 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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