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Letter "F" » fails
«The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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cling, cling to, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, fails, goes out, lovers, rises, The Sea, to each other
«The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit»
«Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth»
Author: Theodore Reik
| About:
Relationships
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and so, child, earth, fails, friendships, indelible, indestructible, less, Noisier, noisiest, noisy, on earth, parent, parenting, relationship, remains, romance, romances, romancing, strongest, The Others
«One fails forward toward success.»
«There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Love
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activity, enterprise, expectations, fails, hardly, hopes, regularly, started, tremendous
«No matter who succeeds or fails, the peacemaker will always suffer.»
«There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . .»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
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apt, but then, calculation, disappointments, everywhere, fails, Human nature, rubbing, rubs, rub up, scheme, scheming, turns
«The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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Olympic
«The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Youth
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admiration, admires, fails, hero, intoxicate, intoxicated, intoxicates, intoxicating, of his own, projection, projections
«Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Expectation
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coldest, expectation, fails, hits, oft, promises, sits
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