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It ofttimes requires heroic courage to face fruitless effort, to take up the broken strands of a life-work, to look bravely toward the future, and proceed undaunted on our way.
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It is never too late to recognize truth and to live by it.
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Living at one's best is constant preparation for instant use.
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The honest, faithful struggler should always realize that failure is but an episode in a true man's life,--never the whole story.
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The knell of lost opportunity is never tolled in this life.
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But what, to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success.
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Failure is often the rock-bottom foundation of real success.
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Failure is often the turning-point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels.
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High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.
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Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.
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Life is not really what comes to us, but what we get from it.
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Many of our failures sweep us to greater heights of success, than we ever hoped for in our wildest dreams.