Quote by Walter Pater
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habit

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. – Walter Pater

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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. – Walter Pater

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Attitude
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

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Failure
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln

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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. – Dave Matthews

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Everyone pushes a falling fence. – Chinese Proverb

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