“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
Original: L'invidia è un sentimento che non porterà mai ad un confronto costruttivo, poiché si nutre del fallimento altrui.
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“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech (May 28, 1948) at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, in Never Give In! : The best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches (2003), Hyperion, p. 446 ISBN 1401300561
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) Novelist, poet, editor
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 114.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
little Steina
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
“When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
2016, Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race