Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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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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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to “scour the anchor.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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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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