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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.]
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]
He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]
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.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not read more
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.