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Samuel Smiles


Scottish
December 23, 1812
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A place for everything, and everything in its place.


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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.


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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.


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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.


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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.
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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.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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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.
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Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
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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.
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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.
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