Samuel Smiles

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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

— Samuel Smiles

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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. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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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. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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