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One Quotes by Samuel Smiles
- With will one can do anything.
- Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;…
- It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be…
- 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…
- The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
- Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
- Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
- Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
- 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…
- The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
- 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…
- The shortest way to do many things is to do one at a time.
- Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
- The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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