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Samuel-smiles

Samuel Smiles
(Scottish Author)

Nationality:: Scottish
Quote count:: 37
Times favorited:: 29

Samuel Smiles , was a Scottish author and reformer.

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All quotes by Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles

“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.”

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Samuel Smiles

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

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Samuel Smiles

“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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Samuel Smiles

“An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.”

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Samuel Smiles

“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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Samuel Smiles

“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever”

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Samuel Smiles

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

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Samuel Smiles

“The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.”

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Samuel Smiles

“Progress, 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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