Samuel Smiles
Quotations
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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.” -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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“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
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“I’m as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!” -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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“The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.” -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 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.” -Samuel Smiles
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“Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession – a property entirely our own.” -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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“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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“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
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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.” -Samuel Smiles
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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.” -Samuel Smiles
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