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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.

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

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

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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

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I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

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

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Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

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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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Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Author

Born: December 23rd, 1812

Died: April 16th, 1904

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