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. |
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. |
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. |
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. |
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever |
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever |
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. |
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. |
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. |
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. |
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. |
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. |
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. |
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors. |
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than any stock of the former |