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.--_George Eliot._
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows
unconsciously into genius.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Perseverance is not always an indication of great abilities. An
indifferent poet is invulnerable to a repulse, the want of sensibility
in him being what a noble self-confidence was in Milton. These excluded
suitors continue, nevertheless, to hang their garlands at the gate, to
anoint the door-post, and even kiss the very threshold of her home,
though the Muse beckons them not in.--_Wordsworth._
~Perverseness.~--The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course
inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as
great a mental force as the direct sequence.--_George Eliot._
~Philosophy.~--Philosophy is the art of living.--_Plutarch._
Philosophy consists not in airy schemes, or idle speculations; the rule
and conduct of all social life is her great province.--_Thomson._