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All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

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.

To ask to see some fruit of our endeavour is but a transcendental way of serving for reward; and what we take to be contempt of self is only greed of hire.

Noble disappointment, noble self-denial, are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness.

Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Let it be enough for faith, that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain.

It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.