Action Quote by Samuel Smiles

“Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.” quote by Samuel Smiles — Download Open image

“Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.”

Samuel Smiles

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

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

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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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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

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

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