“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.