Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
SAMUEL SMILESMere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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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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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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