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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.

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A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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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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The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

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Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Author

Born: December 23rd, 1812

Died: April 16th, 1904

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