Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
SAMUEL SMILESMen often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
SAMUEL SMILESWe 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.
SAMUEL SMILESCecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
SAMUEL SMILESRiches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
SAMUEL SMILESHelp from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
SAMUEL SMILESLost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
SAMUEL SMILESThe truest politeness comes of sincerity.
SAMUEL SMILESThe greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
SAMUEL SMILESTo set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
SAMUEL SMILESThe duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
SAMUEL SMILESRiches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
SAMUEL SMILESPersons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
SAMUEL SMILESThose who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
SAMUEL SMILESWisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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.
SAMUEL SMILESLuck whines; labor whistles.
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