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Failed the bright promise of your early day?
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
 We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single 
excuse.  
 We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single 
excuse. 
 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. 
 The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
 [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam read more 
 The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
 [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.] 
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that read more
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, 
thou wast slain in thine high places.  
 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, 
thou wast slain in thine high places. 
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
 Greatly begin! Though thou have time
 But for a line, be that sublime--
  Not failure, but low read more 
 Greatly begin! Though thou have time
 But for a line, be that sublime--
  Not failure, but low aim is crime. 
 In the lexicon of youth, which
 Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word
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 In the lexicon of youth, which
 Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word
  As--fail!