Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Failing
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Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.
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They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.
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As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
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Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.
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You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.
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Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
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Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
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No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.
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Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
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Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
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As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
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Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
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Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
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You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.
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