One 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.
SAMUEL SMILESHelp from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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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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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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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 great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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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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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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