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

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


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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.



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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.



Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.



The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.



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Where there is a will there is a way.


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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.



The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.



Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.



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.

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





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