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Samuel Smiles

"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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"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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"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

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"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
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"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
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"Progress, 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."
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"I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"
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