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.
SAMUEL SMILESIt 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.
SAMUEL SMILESLabour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
SAMUEL SMILESMarriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
SAMUEL SMILESHope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
SAMUEL SMILESMen whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
SAMUEL SMILESHe who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
SAMUEL SMILESMen 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.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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.
SAMUEL SMILESMake good thy standing place, and move the world.
SAMUEL SMILESThose who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
SAMUEL SMILESThe reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
SAMUEL SMILESIf 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.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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.
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.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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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