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.
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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Birth: | 23rd December, 1812 |
Death: | 16th April, 1904 |
Nationality: | British, Scottish |
Profession: | Author, Reformer, Writer |
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