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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. -

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. – Samuel Smiles

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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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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. – Samuel Smiles

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Wisdom
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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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Health
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. – Henry David Thoreau

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Life

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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The photographic image… is a message without a code. – Roland Barthes

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Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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