"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
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"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.“
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"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
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"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."
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"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
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"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."
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"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
-Pythagoras
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
-Lana Del Rey
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart
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