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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property ent

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession – a property entirely our own. – 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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Failure
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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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Hope
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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. – Samuel Smiles

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Neglect, Negligence
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To be educated, a person doesnt have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life. – Thomas More

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Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. – John Jewel

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The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked. – Enya

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it. – Proverb

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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another. – Yo-Yo Ma

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