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Character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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Biographer
Journalist
Philosopher
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Haddington
East Lothian
Character
Fortune

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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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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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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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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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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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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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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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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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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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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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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.
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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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