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 SMILESLabour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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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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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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The 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.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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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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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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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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All life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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