"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."
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"Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this."
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."
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"Failure means a stripping away of the inessential."
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"Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities."
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"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life."
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"My reputation grows with every failure."
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"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."
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"An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed."
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"Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle."
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"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it."
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"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."
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"What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune."
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"It is easy to despise what you cannot get"
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"The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation."
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"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."
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"Reward worthy failure - Experimentation."
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"Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions."
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"In all education the main cause of failure is staleness."
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"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape"
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