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“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.”

Samuel Smiles · Life

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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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Progress however, 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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