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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of read more
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Success has made failures of many men.
Success has made failures of many men.
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial read more
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women read more
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
