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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Samuel Smiles

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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Discover Failure Finding Learning Mistake Wisdom
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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Civilization Manufacture Metal Soul
Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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Children Commitment Evil Ignorance Woman Yourself
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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Advice Failure Man Mistake Success Teaching
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Book Experience Learning Nature Value Wisdom
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Education Human Humanity Woman
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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Children Greatness Instruction
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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Brave Follow Himself Man Weakness
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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Business Life Observation Pursuit Secret Success
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Growth Help Individual Spirit

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