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Quote by Edward Dowden
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a dist

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. – Edward Dowden

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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding ones own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. – Edward Dowden

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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. – Hector Berlioz

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. – Robert H. Schuller

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Failure

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. – John Drinkwater

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