Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors minds, ages ago.
More Quotes from Samuel Smiles:
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.Samuel Smiles
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Samuel Smiles
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune....
Samuel Smiles
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
Samuel Smiles
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles
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