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When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--fail!

Never say "Fail" again.

He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

He that is down can fall no lower.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.

He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime-- Not failure, but low aim is crime.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

"All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.