Samuel Smiles

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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

— Samuel Smiles

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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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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

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

— Samuel Smiles

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

— Samuel Smiles

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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. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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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

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