Quote by Samuel Smiles
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon ev

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. – 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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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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Experience
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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. – Samuel Smiles

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The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. – Jim Rohn

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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. – Alice Walker

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Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. – Thomas Jefferson, 1787

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It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless. – Charles Simmons

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You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. – Oscar Wilde

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