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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.

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.

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

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.

If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.

The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.

There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

Indeed, we can always better understand and appreciate a man’s real character by the manner in which he conducts himself towards those who are the most nearly related to him, and by his transaction of the seemingly commonplace details of daily duty, than by his public exhibition of himself as an author, an orator, or a statesman.

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

Manners are the ornament of action.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

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.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man’s individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

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.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

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.

Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse – either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.

Character is itself a fortune.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”

Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

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

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

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

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

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