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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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East Lothian
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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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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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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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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Manners are the ornament of action.
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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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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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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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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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
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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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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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