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Quote by Samuel Smiles
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often

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. – Samuel Smiles

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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. – Samuel Smiles

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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. – Samuel Smiles

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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. – Samuel Smiles

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Success is never final, but failure can be. – Bill Parcells

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Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death. – Rupert Holmes

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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. – James Lane Allen

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You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you dont get failures, youre not pushing hard enough on the objectives. – John Poindexter

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Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. – Charles Davenport

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