Discovery Quote by Samuel Smiles

“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.”

Samuel Smiles

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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

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