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Samuel Smiles
Practical wisdom is...
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they...
It will generally...
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of...
We often discover...
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a...
It is a...
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept,...
Where there is...
'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very...
Man cannot aspire...
Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up.
Source: In
The wise man....
The wise man. . . if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
The reason why...
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Labor is still,...
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is...
The very greatest...
The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often...
Practical wisdom is...
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they...
It will generally...
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of...
We often discover...
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a...
It is a...
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept,...
Where there is...
'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very...
Man cannot aspire...
Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up.
Source: In
The wise man....
The wise man. . . if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
The reason why...
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Labor is still,...
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is...
The very greatest...
The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often...