Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
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