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Let us cleanse therefore the fountain of contentedness, which is within us, that so external things may turn out for our good, through our putting the best face on them.
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the body is weighed down by the burden of what presses on it, but the soul often adds to the real load a burden of its own
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the sensible make their life pleasanter and more endurable by mitigating their sorrows with the consideration of their blessings, while most people, like sieves, let the worst things stick to them while the best pass through
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It also makes for contentedness, when things happen against our wish, not to overlook our many advantages and comforts, but by looking at both good and bad to feel that the good preponderate.
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A hopeless feeling descends on one and is hard to fight off.
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Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.
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Amongst ourselves we are unendingly cheerful, but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess.
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We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last.
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One can only say 'God help us!' and plod on our weary way, cold and very miserable, though outwardly cheerful.
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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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It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.
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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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Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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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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Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers.
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hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edisondisputed·Edison: His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin·1910
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The famous form -- I have not failed, I have just found ten thousand ways that won't work -- has no source in Edison. The earliest record of the remark is this one, in the authorised 1910 biography, and it is a colleague's recollection of a conversation, not Edison writing. Note what changes in the retelling: several thousand becomes ten thousand, and a man cheerfully counting negative results becomes a man defending himself against failure.
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One temptation or sorrow passeth, and another cometh; and always we shall have somewhat to suffer
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Little by little, through patience and long-suffering, thou shalt conquer by the help of God, rather than by violence and thine own strength of will.
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A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.
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Better late than never.
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Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.
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If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.
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Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.
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Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie. It’s just the way life is sometimes.