Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
SAMUEL SMILESIt is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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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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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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With will one can do anything.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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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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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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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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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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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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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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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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