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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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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors. - 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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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. - Samuel Smiles
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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. - 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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Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions. - 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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A place for everything, and everything in its place. - 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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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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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. - 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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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. - Samuel Smiles
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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. - 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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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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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. - 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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