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Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew.
Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew.
Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- John Keats
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- Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 83 · printed citation: Keats · subject: Failure
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