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Quote by Samuel Smiles
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasu

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

Other quotes by Samuel Smiles

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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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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Neglect, Negligence
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Samuel Smiles
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Im as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! – Samuel Smiles

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smile
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Samuel Smiles
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Other Quotes from
Fairies
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[W]hen the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. – James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

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Fairies

The Realm of Fairy is a strange shadow land, lying just beyond the fields we know. – Author Unknown

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Fairies

Raindrops are like fairy whispers. – Author Unknown

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Fairies

Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures — squirrels, fairies and angels. – Author Unknown

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Fairies

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Overheard in a Washington D.C. confessional: “Bless me, Father, for sins have been committed.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Politics

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win. – Mark Spitz

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cool

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Women artists need to break barriers in order for womens experience to be valuable. – Liz Phair

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