Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.Samuel Smiles
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune....
Samuel Smiles
No pains, no gains.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles
Where there is a will there is a way'.' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
Samuel Smiles
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
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