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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
Samuel Smiles
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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.
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Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do spend less than you earn add guinea to guinea scrape and save and the pile of gold will gradually rise.
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Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
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Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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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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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
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It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to scour the anchor.
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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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Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
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The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.
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