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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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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action
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Character is itself a fortune.
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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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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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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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Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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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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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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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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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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