Scottish - Author | December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles
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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
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It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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