Quote by Samuel Smiles
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

Other quotes by Samuel Smiles

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. – Samuel Smiles

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Experience
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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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Failure
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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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Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. – William Shakespeare

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Life

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole

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Life

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. – Shania Twain

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Life

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The ability to take pleasure in ones life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. – Todd Solondz

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Intelligence

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. – Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury

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Justice & Law

Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you. – Rumi

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Rumi

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs. – Sherrill Brown