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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

Samuel Smiles

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Discipline Experience Goodness Sense Wisdom
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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Himself Man Mountain Raise Secure World
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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Detail Energy Force Life Man Station
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
Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Business Focus Oneself
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
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Admire Character Command Genius Heart Life Respect Secure
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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Best Education Practice Work
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Difficult Invention Mom Necessary School
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Butterfly Color Learning Service Study
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Burden Glory Hard Work Honor

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

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