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"All honor to him who shall win the prize,"
The world has cried for a thousand years;
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"All honor to him who shall win the prize,"
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries and fails and dies,
I give great honor and glory and tears.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to read more
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, read more
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
[Lat., Quod read more
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
[Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
