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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. – Humphry Davy

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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? – Humphry Davy

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. – Humphry Davy

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I think theres something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real. – China Mieville

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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. – William Howard Taft

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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. – Elbert Hubbard

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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart

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