Quote by Samuel Smiles
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions

The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. – Samuel Smiles

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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. – Samuel Smiles

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The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. – 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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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. – Charlie Chaplin

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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. – Harry S. Truman

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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. – Plutarch

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