Stothard 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.
SAMUEL SMILESSelf-control is only courage under another form.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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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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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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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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With will one can do anything.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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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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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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The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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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 highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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