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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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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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The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. – Samuel Smiles

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