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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.


Samuel Smiles

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SAMUEL SMILES Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gi...
SAMUEL SMILES Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing...
SAMUEL SMILES I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
SAMUEL SMILES He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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SAMUEL SMILES The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas th...
SAMUEL SMILES Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
SAMUEL SMILES The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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SAMUEL SMILES We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding...
SAMUEL SMILES Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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SAMUEL SMILES Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.
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SAMUEL SMILES We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mi...
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SAMUEL SMILES The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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SAMUEL SMILES Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they...
SAMUEL SMILES Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once;...
SAMUEL SMILES The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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SAMUEL SMILES It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station i...
SAMUEL SMILES The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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SAMUEL SMILES Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
SAMUEL SMILES It is energy -- the central element of which is will -- that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm...
SAMUEL SMILES It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the...
SAMUEL SMILES Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
SAMUEL SMILES Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves ...
SAMUEL SMILES He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILES The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and...
SAMUEL SMILES The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps t...
SAMUEL SMILES Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
SAMUEL SMILES The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
SAMUEL SMILES An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but prec...
SAMUEL SMILES It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and di...
SAMUEL SMILES "Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thin...
SAMUEL SMILES Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...
SAMUEL SMILES Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are use...
SAMUEL SMILES It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu...
SAMUEL SMILES Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...
SAMUEL SMILES He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
SAMUEL SMILES 'Where there is a will there is a way'.' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, ...
SAMUEL SMILES Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
SAMUEL SMILES Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gif...
SAMUEL SMILES The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas...
SAMUEL SMILES All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advanceme...
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SAMUEL SMILES To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itsel...
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SAMUEL SMILES Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you...
SAMUEL SMILES Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action.
SAMUEL SMILES It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm i...
SAMUEL SMILES Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization a...
SAMUEL SMILES Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ......
SAMUEL SMILES To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
SYDNEY SMILES The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
SYDNEY SMILES We knew our depth would eventually wear them down. We did a much better job of transition defense in...
ERIK SMILES Terry was huge. He's a tremendous defensive stopper.
ERIK SMILES Let go of your perceived control, and let the unknown turn you on.
PRESTON SMILES I never liked you, and I always will.
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SAMUEL PEPYS Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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SAMUEL MORSE What God hath wrought?
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SAMUEL LOVER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
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SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
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SAMUEL LOVER Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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SAMUEL LARSEN You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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SAMUEL LARSEN Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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SAMUEL LARSEN One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
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SAMUEL GOMPERS It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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SAMUEL DASH I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in ...
SAMUEL BECKETT All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...
SAMUEL BECKETT No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on...
SAMUEL BECKETT You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
SAMUEL BECKETT What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to r...
SAMUEL BECKETT I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
SAMUEL BECKETT If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left co...
SAMUEL BARNETT I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings...
SAMUEL BARNETT In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broad...
SAMUEL BARNETT With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you c...
SAMUEL BARNETT I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l...
SAMUEL BARNETT The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly reb...
SAMUEL BARNETT My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career t...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind m...
SAMUEL BARNETT I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I...
SAMUEL BARNETT Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to b...
SAMUEL BARNETT I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
SAMUEL BARNETT I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
SAMUEL BARNETT Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
SAMUEL BARNETT Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and...
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