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Very Quotes by Samuel Smiles
- It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the…
- "Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution…
- No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good…
- The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established…
- Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own…
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong