Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
SAMUEL SMILESIt is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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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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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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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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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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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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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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