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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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Edward Dowden
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In Gods world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. – Frederick William Robertson

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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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Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent. – Shahrukh Khan

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Ive come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. – Tony Robbins

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