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"A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example. - [Children] Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life. - [Intellect] All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. - [Occupations] Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life. - [Character] Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good. - [Bigotry] Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart. - [Cheerfulness] Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it. - [Children] Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies--the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men as not heroic. - [Duty] Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. - [Conscience] Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. - [Diligence] 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. - [Individuality] 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, hardworking, and intent men--their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. - [Genius] Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom. - [Common Sense] Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great. - [Greatness] His qualities depend, not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities. The Psalmist briefly describes him as one "that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." - [Gentlemen] Home makes the man. - [Home] Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it. - [Industry] Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - [Hope] If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. - [Industry] It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor." - [Occupations] It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid. - [Observation] 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. - [Luck] Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth,--the result of free individual action, energy, and independence. - [Liberty] Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty. - [Duty] Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials. - [Nation] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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