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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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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.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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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.
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