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Explore more quotes by Samuel Smiles

"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."

"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."

"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."

"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."

"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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