Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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.”
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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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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The 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.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
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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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The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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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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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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