Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
SAMUEL SMILES
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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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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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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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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All life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
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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.
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