He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILESHe who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILESLabor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
SAMUEL SMILESEnthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
SAMUEL SMILESCharacter is itself a fortune.
SAMUEL SMILESThe possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
SAMUEL SMILESMen must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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.
SAMUEL SMILESThe greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
SAMUEL SMILESThe healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
SAMUEL SMILESWith will one can do anything.
SAMUEL SMILESWoman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
SAMUEL SMILESThe brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
SAMUEL SMILESThe spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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.
SAMUEL SMILESFor want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
SAMUEL SMILESRiches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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