Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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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.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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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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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 work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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The 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.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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It 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.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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The 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.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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