“Who never wins can rarely lose,
Who never climbs as rarely falls.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
To James T. Fields, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He who walks straight rarely falls.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
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