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1. "The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved." ~ Samuel Smiles
2. "Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." ~ Samuel Smiles
3. "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." ~ Samuel Smiles
4. "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever." ~ Samuel Smiles
5. "He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery." ~ Samuel Smiles
6. "An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing." ~ Samuel Smiles
7. "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
8. "Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." ~ Samuel Smiles
9. "Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action." ~ Samuel Smiles
10. "The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted." ~ Samuel Smiles
11. "Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step." ~ Samuel Smiles
12. "Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them." ~ Samuel Smiles
13. "The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual." ~ Samuel Smiles
14. "The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear." ~ Samuel Smiles
15. "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." ~ Samuel Smiles
16. "Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up." ~ Samuel Smiles
17. "The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted." ~ Samuel Smiles
18. "Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry." ~ Samuel Smiles
19. "A place for everything, and everything in its place." ~ Samuel Smiles
20. "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once." ~ Samuel Smiles
21. "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." ~ Samuel Smiles
22. "Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to support me in these contentions. I lost her thirty years ago [I was a child then]--nevertheless, ever living in my memory, she follows me from age to age.She suffered with me in my poverty, and was not allowed to share my better fortune. When young, I made her sad, and now I cannot console her. I know not even where her bones are: I was too poor then to buy earth to bury her!And yet I owe her much. I feel deeply that I am the son of woman. Every instant, in my ideas and words [not to mention my features and gestures], I find again my mother in myself. It is my mother's blood which gives me the sympathy I feel for bygone ages, and the tender remembrance of all those who are now no more.What return then could I, who am myself advancing towards old age, make her for the many things I owe her? One, for which she would have thanked me--this protest in favour of women and mothers." ~ Samuel Smiles

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Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative."
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