Samuel Smiles Quotes - Page 6

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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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  Book, Men, Mutual Love

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.264

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• Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

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  Littles, Life Is, Duty

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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

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  Knowledge, Possession, Labor

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• Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

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  Mother, Good Luck, Luck

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.259

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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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  Inspiration, Men, Brave

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.17

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• Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

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  Numbers, Form, Units

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.30

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• Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse; and where there is equally vigorous effort, like distinction and success will almost surely follow. Thus the chain of example is carried down through time in an endless succession of links--admiration exciting imitation, and perpetuating the true aristocracy of genius.

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  Men, Light, Flames

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.528, The Floating Press

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• The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

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  Doors, Next, Egotism

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.229

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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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  Art, Strong, Kings

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• The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

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  Use, Lasts, Influential

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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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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  Science, Civilization, Iron

  Samuel Smiles (2010). “Men of Invention and Industry”, p.87, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.

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  Independent, Men, Soul

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.308

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• Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

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  Opportunity, Greatness, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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• He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

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  Men, Light, Attention

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.341

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• A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

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  Women, Giving, Quality

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.310

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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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  Men, Good Man, Vices

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.72

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• Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

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  Independence, Liberty, Energy

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.17

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• True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

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  Arrogance, Growth, Quality

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.407

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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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  Father, Giving, Mentor

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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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  Mean, Men, Done

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

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  Character, Men, Energy

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.203

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• One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

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  Running, Mother, Fashion

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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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  Break Out, Done, Answers

  Samuel Smiles (1875). “Thrift by Samuel Smiles”, p.337

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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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  Self, Class, People

  1859 Self-Help, ch.10.

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• Self-control is only courage under another form.

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  Self, Self Control, Form

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.158

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