"It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it."
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"You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure."
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"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience."
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"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."
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"Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author."
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"The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside."
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"Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance."
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"They never fail who die in a great cause."
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"All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame."
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"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world."
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"Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall."
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"The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly."
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"The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him."
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"Every fair from fair sometime declines"
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"It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!"
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"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another."
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"Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world."
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"Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment."
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"Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus."
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"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre."
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