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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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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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Journalist
Philosopher
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Haddington
East Lothian
Learned
Stick
Pencils
Lieu
Study
Sticks
Insects
Barn
Knew
Tiny
Studying
Owed
Often
Wings
Closely
Barns
Art
Door
Served
Butterflies
Would
Doors
Butterfly
Burnt
Painting
Canvas
Combining
Color
Colors
Pencil

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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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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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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action
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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
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Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.
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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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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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The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
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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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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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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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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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