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Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.
Samuel Smiles
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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 greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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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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