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«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.»
«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.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| Keywords:
difficulty, exhausted, inspired, reached, shore, struggled, tide, trial
«All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Experience,
Life
| Keywords:
activity, advancement, advancements, conduct, determined, for the most part, impediments, perseverance, resolution, steady, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, The Conduct of Life, thrown, zeal
«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.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
discipline, instruction, practical, Precepts, real life, school, School of, so far, theory, The school, useful
«It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
application, consequences, ill luck, improvidence, lamenting, mismanagement, neglect, of their own, reaping
«Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Health,
Knowledge,
Medicine,
Time,
Wealth
| Keywords:
replaced, temperance
«It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, stil»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| Keywords:
dishonest, earned, fraud, frauds, injustice, scrupulously, truer, unscrupulous, unsuccessful
«Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| Keywords:
resolved
«He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| Keywords:
discovery
«It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.»
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