“Westminster Review – a man, who although, through failing health and failing voice, he had virtually passed out of public life, yet retained to the last the affectionate veneration of the Canadian people as no other man of the time can be said to have done.”
Buckingham and Ross 1892, p. 651, The Westminster Review Volume 137
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"For Those Who Fail" in Memorie and Rime (1884), p. 237.
Context: p>Oh, great is the hero who wins a name,
But greater many and many a time
Some pale-faced fellow who dies in shame,
And lets God finish the thought sublime.And great is the man with a sword undrawn,
And good is the man who refrains from wine;
But the man who fails and yet still fights on,
Lo, he is the twin-born brother of mine.</p
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
Variant: You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.
"Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton" (1811–1812)
“I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.”
How to kill yourself like a man. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide
The Best Page in the Universe
“If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.”
Source: The Bands of Mourning
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)