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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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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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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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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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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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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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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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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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Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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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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If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.
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Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.
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Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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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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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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