Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
SAMUEL SMILESOne 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.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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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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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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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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With will one can do anything.
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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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It 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.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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