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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.
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There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.
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Noble disappointment, noble self-denial, are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness.
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Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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Let it be enough for faith, that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain.
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It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.