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

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

A little neglect may breed great mischief. – Benjamin Franklin

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