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Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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Haddington
East Lothian
Humanity
Woman
Women
Heart
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Grace

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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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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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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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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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Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.
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Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.
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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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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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When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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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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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.
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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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