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  • Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
  • True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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  • Samuel Smiles ''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
    Character Ch. VI
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Samuel Smiles 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.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Samuel Smiles Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Joseph Addison What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Mark Twain Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Baer A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Washington Irving A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
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  • Samuel Smiles An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Bai Ling But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Leigh Hunt Colors are the smiles of nature.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Og Mandino Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Samuel Smiles Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Robert Herrick Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Samuel Smiles He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • 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
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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