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Samuel Smiles Quotes: The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
         

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.


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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.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.



Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.



Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.



The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.



Where there is a will there is a way.

Where there is a will there is a way.


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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.

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



The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.



Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.



It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.



No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.





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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.



You are the man who made himself a devil, who wishes to be a god, all for love.

You are the man who made himself a devil, who wishes to be a god, all for love.



If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.

If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.



I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.

I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.



I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.



I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.

I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.



The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.



So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.



The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.



Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness.

Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness.




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