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“Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.”

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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

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Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

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The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the…

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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of…

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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the…

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

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The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the…

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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

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