With will one can do anything.
SAMUEL SMILESThere are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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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.
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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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