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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful, says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children their first great instructor is example.
Samuel Smiles
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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.
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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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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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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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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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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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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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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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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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Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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With will one can do anything.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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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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Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.
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