Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
SAMUEL SMILESCharacter is itself a fortune.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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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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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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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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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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