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If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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- Sri Chinmoy
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- Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1931 to 2007; Wikidata Q319578, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319578 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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