It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

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Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

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There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

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