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Samuel Smiles

writer, journalist, biographer, philosopher

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1812  – 1904

Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought.

All Quotes by Samuel Smiles

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
— Samuel Smiles
“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.”
— 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
“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.”
— Samuel Smiles
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
— Samuel Smiles
“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.”
— Samuel Smiles
“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”
— Samuel Smiles