 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...moral is to the physical as ten to one. The strength, the industry, and the civilisation of nations— all depend upon individual character; and the very...outgrowth. In the just balance of nature, individuals, and nations, and races, will obtain just so much as they deserve, and no more. And as effect finds... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - African Americans - 1867 - 494 pages
...! CHAPTER IX. WHITE CELEBRITIES AND BLACK NOBODIES. In the just balance of nature, individuals, and nations, and races, will obtain Just so much as they...of character amongst a people produce its befitting results. — SAMUEL A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction ;... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - African Americans - 1867 - 492 pages
...BLACK NOBODIES. In the just balance of nature, individuals, and nations, and races, will obtain j UK! so much as they deserve, and no more, And as effect...of character amongst a people produce its befitting results.— SAMUEL SMILES. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 500 pages
...BLACK NOBODIES. In the just balance of nature, individuals, and nation*, and race*, wiD obtain just eo much as they deserve, and no more. And as effect finds its cause, so mrelj does quality of charncter amongst a people produce its befitting results.— SIXUEL SIDLES. A... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1876 - 448 pages
...moral is to the physical as ten to one. The strength^ the industry, and the civilisation of nations — all depend upon individual character; and the very...of character amongst a people produce its befitting results. Though a man have comparatively little culture, slender abilities, and but small wealth, yet,... | |
 | Olivia M. Stone - Canary Islands - 1889 - 518 pages
...XIII. SAN SEBASTIAN— NATIVE DANCES. The strength, the industry, and the civilisation of nations — all depend upon individual character ; and the very...upon it. Laws and institutions are but its outgrowth. — SMILES. If you wish a thing done, go; if not, sead. — Old English Proverb. WE slowly loitered... | |
 | Heather Glen - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 276 pages
...the moral is to the physical as ten to one. The strength, the industry, the civilisation of nations - all depend upon individual character; and the very foundations of civil security seat upon it. Laws and institutions are but its outgrowth. In the just balance of nature, individuals,... | |
 | A. R. Calhoun - Self-Help - 2005 - 301 pages
...moral is to the physical as ten to one. The strength, the industry, and the civilization of nations— all depend upon individual character ; and the very...so much as they deserve, and no more, And as effect find* its cause, so surely does quality of character amongst a people produce its befitting results.... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - Drama - 2005 - 556 pages
...order embodied in the individual . . . The strength, the industry, and the civilization of nations - all depend upon individual character; and the very foundations of civil security rest upon it.22 Truthfulness, integrity and goodness were, in Smiles's view, 'the essence of manly character',... | |
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Napoleon said the moral is to the physical as ten to one. The strength, the industry, and the civilization of nations — all depend upon individual character; and the very foundations of civil security rest upon it. Laws and institutions are but its... 