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Example Teaches Better Than Precept. It Is The Best Modeler Of The Character Of Men And Women. To Set A Lofty Example Is The Richest Bequest A Man Can Leave Behind Him.

For Want Of Self-restraint Many Men Are Engaged All Their Lives In Fighting With Difficulties Of Their Own Making, And Rendering Success Impossible By Their Own Cross-grained Ungentleness; Whilst Others, It May Be Much Less Gifted, Make Their Way And Achieve Success By Simple Patience, Equanimity, And Self-control.

Time Is Of No Account With Great Thoughts, Which Are As Fresh To -day As When They First Passed Through Their Authors' Minds Ages Ago.

The Healthy Spirit Of Self-help Created Among Working People Would, More Than Any Other Measure, Serve To Raise Them As A Class; And This, Not By Pulling Down Others, But By Levelling Them Up To A Higher And Still Advancing Standard Of Religion, Intelligence, And Virtue.

It Is Not Ease, But Effort-not Facility, But Difficulty, Makes Men. There Is, Perhaps, No Station In Life In Which Difficulties Have Not To Be Encountered And Overcome Before Any Decided Measure Of Success Can Be Achieved.