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.
SAMUEL SMILESProgress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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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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Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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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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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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