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Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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Philosopher
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Haddington
East Lothian
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Where there is a will there is a way is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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With will one can do anything.
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Luck 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.
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It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action
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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful, says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children their first great instructor is example.
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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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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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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Manners are the ornament of action.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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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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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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The 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.
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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.
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