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Cheerfulness gives elasticity to the spirit. Spectres fly before it; difficulties cause no despair, for they are encountered with hope, and the mind acquires that happy disposition to improve opportunities which rarely fails of success.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
We learn wisdom from failure more than from success: we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and he who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual…
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means, and the exercise of ordinary qualities.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
It is not ease, but effort—not facility, but difficulty, that makes men.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct