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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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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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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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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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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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Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.
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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 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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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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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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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action
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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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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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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
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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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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 possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .
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