Let the long contention cease! <br> Geese are swans, and swans are geese. - Matthew Arnold

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As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Matthew Arnold

Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

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Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

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Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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