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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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  Fighting, Men, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.239

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• A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

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  Children, Tree, Example

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.33

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• Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

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  Women, Heart, Grace

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.38

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• Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.

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  Running, Heart, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.1

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• It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

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  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.229

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• Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

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  Men, Weight, Littles

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.319

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• Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Daring

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• Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

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  Time, Accomplish, Persons

  Samuel Smiles (1868). “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles”, p.225

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• The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

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  Ignorance, Evil, Selfishness

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.19

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• So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'

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  Children, Character, Eye

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.295

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• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

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  Inspirational, Self, Roots

  'Self-Help' (1859)

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• The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Nature, Book

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.258, Cambridge University Press

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• Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

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  Character, Good Character, Possession

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• Character is itself a fortune.

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  Character, Fortune

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.276

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• Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

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  Home, School, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.31

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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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  Success, Honesty, Character

  Samuel Smiles (2005). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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  Running, Eggs, Purpose

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.353

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• Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

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  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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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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  Self Esteem, Men, Self Respect

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.362

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• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

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• No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

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  Law, Sober, Idle

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.5, The Floating Press

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

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  Train, Consequence

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.9

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• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

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  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.352

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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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  Riches, Claims, Distinction

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.314

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