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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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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. – 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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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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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

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There is always time for failure. – John Mortimer

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If you dont accept failure as a possibility, you dont set high goals, you dont branch out, you dont try – you dont take the risk. – Rosalynn Carter

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By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. – Sheila Jackson Lee

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