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Things Quotes by Samuel Smiles
- 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."
- Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark…
- 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…
- It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of…
- It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in…
- An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
- The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established…
- 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…
- The shortest way to do many things is to do one at a time.
- The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle