Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
SAMUEL SMILESThose who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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.
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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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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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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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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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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
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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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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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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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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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