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She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.
(Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter. Love Minus Zero/No Limit (song), on the album Bringing it all Back Home (1965).)
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Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
(Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Seven Against Thebes, l. 224.)
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
(Elias Canetti (b. 1905), Austrian novelist, philosopher. "1974," The Secret Heart Of The Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973-1985 (1991).)
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies,
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Tell all the truth but tell it slant (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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Nothing succeeds like reports of success.
(Sue Sanders, U.S. oil producer. Our Common Herd, ch. 24 (1940).)
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Success
Self-esteem = --------- Pretensions
(William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. The Principles of Psychology, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1890).)
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Nothing recedes like success.
(Bryan Forbes (b. 1926), British author, actor, filmmaker. quoted in Observer (London Dec. 19, 1971).)
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
(Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Mrs. Napper, in The Hand of Ethelberta, ch. 9 (1876).
Speaking of Ethelberta.)
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The realism of failure, the romance of success.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
(Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Pensées de Gustave Flaubert, p. 82, Conard (1915).)
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