Scottish - Author | December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904
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 very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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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.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
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A place for everything, and everything in its place.
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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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