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• Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

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  Responsibility, Men, Agents

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

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  Victory, Moral, Virtue

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.280

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• All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.

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  Perseverance, Overcoming, Advancement

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.352

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• Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

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  Men, Mind, Age

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.22

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• Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

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  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.6

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• There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.

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  Kings, Character, World

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.3

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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.

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  Wisdom, Perseverance, Journey

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.462, The Floating Press

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• Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

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  Men, Wind, Looks

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.46

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• The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

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  Children, Issues, Mind

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

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  Men, Vision, Looks

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• The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

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  Running, Kindness, Believe

  Samuel Smiles (1883). “Duty”

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• The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Successful

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.46

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• No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

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  Mean, Rights, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.2

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• The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tell; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude, and consistency-qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.

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  Character, Exercise, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1884). “Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive”

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

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  Religious, Soul, Peculiar

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

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• The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

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  Leadership, Character, Men

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

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

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  Men, Example, Behinds

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

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• The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

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  Greatness, Men, Race

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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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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  Kindness, Helping Others, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.6

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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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• Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

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  Character, Men, Civilization

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.18

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• Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

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  Men, Onward And Upward, Balance

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.152

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• No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

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  Giving Up, Race, Forever

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

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