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Arzt, Biograph, Sozialreformer, Schriftsteller, Moral-Lehrbücher (England, 1812 - 1904).

Samuel Smiles · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Samuel Smiles wäre heute 212 Jahre, 3 Monate, 12 Tage oder 77.534 Tage alt.

Geboren am 23.12.1812 in Haddington/Berwickshire
Gestorben am 16.04.1904 in London
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• As respects the great contrivances and inventions which have conferred so much power and wealth upon the nation, it is unquestionable that for the greater part of them we have been indebted to men of the humblest rank. Deduct what they have done in this particular line of action, and it will be found that very little indeed remains for other men to have accomplished.

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• Cheerfulness gives elasticity to the spirit. Spectres fly before it.

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• Enthusiasm . . . the sustaining power of all great action.

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• Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

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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 impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness.

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• He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

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• It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

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• It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

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• Liberty is the result of free individual action, energy and independence.

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• Middle class people are apt to live up to their incomes, if not beyond them: affecting a degree of 'style' which is most unhealthy in its effects upon society at large.

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• National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

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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 acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

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• The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, involving the necessity of going on in the same course, debt following debt, as lie follows lie.

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• The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful. Success treads on the heels of every right effort.

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• The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

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

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• Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

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• Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him, but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self culture.

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• To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation and trial.

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