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

Samuel Smiles

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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Action Blessing Fortune Quite
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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Condition Experience Form Improvement Institution Personal Question Service
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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Cure Domestic Evil Politics Reform
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Character Control Courage Essence Form Primary
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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Best Better Himself Leaving Man Teaching
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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Active Best Help Man Nature Necessary
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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Best Influential Long Virtue
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner

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

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