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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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East Lothian
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The 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.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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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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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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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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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.
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Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.
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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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The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about lucky hits, the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only good time coming we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.
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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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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 great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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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.
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