All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
SAMUEL SMILES
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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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With will one can do anything.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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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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Character is itself a fortune.
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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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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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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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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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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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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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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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