One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
SAMUEL SMILESWoman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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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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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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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.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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