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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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• 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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• 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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• Manners are the ornament of action.

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  Ornaments, Action, Manners

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.323

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth of our own perverted life; and though we may endeavor to cut them down and extirpate them by means of law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of human life and character are radically improved.

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  Spring, Character, Mean

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.

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  Men, Numbers, Giving

  "Lives of the Engineers". Book by Samuel Smiles, 1861.

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• Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

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  Character, Educator, Practicals

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.88

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• The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.

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  Country, Teacher, Iron

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• National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

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  Selfish, Individuality, Progress

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.16

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• The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

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  Queens, Kindness, Heart

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.323

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

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  People, Ignorant, Noble

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

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• The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

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  Generosity, Library, Use

  Samuel Smiles (1868). “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles”, p.327

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• Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

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  Effort, Done, Sometimes

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.67

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• Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

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  Perseverance, Spring, Blessing

  Samuel Smiles (1864). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.209

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• It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

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  Men, Race, Example

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.21

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

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  Men, Civilization, Products

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.88

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• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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  Reality, Desire, Anticipation

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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