Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
SAMUEL SMILESStothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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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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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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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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Character is itself a fortune.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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