Samuel Smiles Short Quotes

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A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

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Cheerfulness gives elasticity to the spirit. Spectres fly before it.

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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

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Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire good actions in others.

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Middle class people are apt to live up to their incomes, if not beyond them.

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All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

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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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If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.

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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

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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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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

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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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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society.
Of iron

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