It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
SAMUEL SMILESAlthough genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Character is itself a fortune.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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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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It 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.
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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 best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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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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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
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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 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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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
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