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Samuel Smiles has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to…
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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that…
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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…
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success…
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have…
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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge…
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Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it…
— Bob Beauprez
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We…
— Blaise Pascal
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and…
— Joseph Paxton
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately…
— Richard Owen
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
— George Santayana
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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