Quote by Samuel Smiles
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting t

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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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. – 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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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. – Samuel Smiles

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Neglect, Negligence
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. – Owen Felltham

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. – Samuel Johnson

A little neglect may breed great mischief. – Benjamin Franklin

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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. – John Calvin

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