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Quote by Samuel Smiles
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they m

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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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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Samuel Smiles
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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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Fairies
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. – Samuel Smiles

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Hope
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I dont need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform. – Darrell Issa

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Failure

Failure is a word unknown to me. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Failure

Failures a natural part of life. – John Malkovich

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Failure

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities. – Justin Guarini

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Failure

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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. – Nikolai Lenin

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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Leave the Presidents family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. – Donald Rumsfeld

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When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, its very had to find a good place to eat. – Paul Prudhomme

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