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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Eloquence
Josh Billings

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Failure
Kenneth Ewart Boulding

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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Fools and Foolishness
John Churton Collins

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Friends and Friendship
Readers Digest

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
Learning
Rene Dubos

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Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Heinrich Heine

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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
Potential
William James

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Ambition
Samuel Johnson

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Failure
Norman Macewan

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
Knowledge
James A. Michener

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Thoughts and Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Judgment and Judges
Theodore Parker

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Failure
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.
Success
Robert Thibodeau

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Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
Goodness
Henry David Thoreau

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When everything else fails read the instructions.
Rules
Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun