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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Samuel Smiles
Adversity, Discovery, Sorrow
Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press

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

Samuel Smiles
Inspirational, Adversity, Men
Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.350

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