Character is itself a fortune.
SAMUEL SMILESCharacter is itself a fortune.
SAMUEL SMILESStothard 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.
SAMUEL SMILESGood character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
SAMUEL SMILESMake good thy standing place, and move the world.
SAMUEL SMILESThe great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
SAMUEL SMILESNo 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.
SAMUEL SMILESConscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
SAMUEL SMILESLike men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
SAMUEL SMILESThe apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
SAMUEL SMILESChildhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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.
SAMUEL SMILESWe learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILESEnergy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
SAMUEL SMILESIt 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.
SAMUEL SMILESLuck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.
SAMUEL SMILESMan cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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