 | 1921 - 864 pages
...get Keats saying 'There is not a fiercer hell than the failure of a great object,' and George Eliot: 'The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.' The sages are just like the populace which produces proverbs. You can justify any course of action... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 702 pages
...sepulchre of the heart haunted by the ghost of past affections, and hope is gone for ever. The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes. — Disraeli. A man who gives his children habits of industry, provides... | |
 | George Eliot - 1866 - 200 pages
...speaking. "But I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man onght to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...that way while he went on speaking. " But I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...that way while he went on speaking. " But I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty... | |
 | 1870 - 956 pages
...motive that impelled you at first, you will soon love study for its own sake. SUCCESS. — The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes. — Disraeli. SUCCESS. — Almost all useful discoveries have been made,... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pages
...old word — ' necessity is laid upon me.' I 'm proof against that word failure. I Ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty:... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 pages
...proof against that word, failure. He has seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear, he says, is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result a man may see from his particular work—that is a tremendous uncertainty... | |
 | 1909 - 738 pages
...little to do with the conversion of intelligent Englishmen. — Father John Morris, SJ 10. The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes. — Lord Beaconsfield. 11. The truest expedience is to answer right out... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...word — ' necessity is laid upon me.' I 'm proof against that word failure. I 've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty:... | |
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I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. 
