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Quote by Samuel Smiles
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individ

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. – Samuel Smiles

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles

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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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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. – Aeschylus

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You cant sweep other people off their feet, if you cant be swept off your own. – Clarence Day

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Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. – Keith Miller

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Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesnt all have to be by tomorrow! – William Eardley IV

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