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Samuel Smiles Quotes
«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.»
«Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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Hope
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companion, Companion of, hopes, Miracles, mother, strongly, The Gift
«Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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Hope
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behind, burden, casts, cast about, cast on, journey, journeying, Journey to the, shadow, sun, The Shadow, The Sun
«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.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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Progress
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advance, at once, comparatively, satisfied, step by step
«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.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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battle, battle of, cases, difficulties, fought, honor, struggle, The Battle, the Battle of, uphill
«An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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anticipation, intense, performing, precursor, precursors, transforms
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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at length, difficulty, discoveries, established, hardship, inventions, length, nurtured, pondered, pondering, ponders