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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.
Samuel Smiles
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Samuel Smiles All Oftener Quotes
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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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield
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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Ernest Dimnet
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