I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Quote by TS Eliot

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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another...

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another...

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the...

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the...

Those who trust us educate us

Those who trust us educate us

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment,...

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment,...

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.