 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.  Essays at Large - Page 207by Sir John Collings Squire - 1922 - 211 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1921 - 864 pages
...contradict each other. Take 'Failure.' You get Keats saying 'There is not a fiercer hell than the failure of a great object,' and George Eliot: 'The only failure...with advice from the august. This dictionary is, as it were, a picture of the mental confusion of man faced with the many-sidedness of * De la More Press,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1866 - 200 pages
...speaking. "But I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man onght to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...that way while he went on speaking. " But 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. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...that way while he went on speaking. " But 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. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pages
...old word — ' necessity is laid upon me.' 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. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty:... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 pages
...proof against that word, failure. He has seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear, he says, is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result a man may see from his particular work—that is a tremendous uncertainty... | |
 | 1888 - 722 pages
...back. — The Same. There is no private lit'o which has not been determined by a wider public life. — George Eliot. The only failure a man ought to fear...failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. As to just the amount of result he may BOB from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...word — ' necessity is laid upon me.' 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. As to just the amount of result he may see from his particular work — that's a tremendous uncertainty:... | |
 | 1876 - 740 pages
...— Anon. i 2. Boys are always troublesome, especially from ten to thirty. — Sir Arthur Helps. 1 3. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. — "Felix Holt." 14. In mendicant fashion, we make the goodness of others a reason for exorbitant... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...perfect.— Anon. 12. Boys are always troublesome, especially from ten to thirty. — Sir Arthur Helps. i j. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. — "Felix Holt." 14. In mendicant fashion, we make the goodness of others a reason for exorbitant... | |
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