Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
SAMUEL SMILESThe shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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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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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 truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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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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Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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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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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Riches 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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It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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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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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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With will one can do anything.
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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Men 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.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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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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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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