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252 PACE FAILURE

There is a fellow somewhat near the door; he should be a brazier by his face.
Henry VIII. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 41.


I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any shoulder that I see.
King Lear. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 99.
 There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 11.


Your face, my thane, is a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 63.


You have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm, of cloudiness.
Mvch Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 41.


Compare her face with some that I shall show;
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 91.


Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.
Sonnet LXVIII.


An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
R. B. Sheridan—School for Scandal. Act IV.
Sc. 1.


Her angel's face,
As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Spenser—Faerie Queene. Bk. I. Canto III.
St. 4.


Her cheeks so rare a white was on,
No daisy makes comparison;
(Who sees them is undone) ;
For streaks of red were mingled there,
Such as are on a Cath'rine pear,
(The side that's next the Sun).
Sir John Suckling—A Ballad Upon a Wedding. St. 10.


Her face is like the Milky Way i' the sky,—
A meeting of gentle lights without a name.
Sir John Suckling—Brennorali. Act III.


White rose in red rose-garden
Is not so white;
Snowdrops, that plead for pardon
And pine for fright
Because the hard East blows
Over their maiden vows,
Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
Swinburne—Before the Mirror.


A face with gladness overspread!
Soft smiles, by human kindness bred!
Wordsworth—To a Highland Girl.


My face. Is this long strip of skin
Which bears of worry many a trace,
Of sallow hue, of features thin,
This mass of seams and lines, my face?
Edmund Yates—Aged Forty.
FAILURE
[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken
beliefs and unpopular names and impossible
loyalties.
Matthew Arnold—Essays in Criticism.
Closing par. of preface.


In the lexicon of youth, which
Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no
such word
As—fail!
Bulweh-Lttton—Richelieu. Act II. Sc. 2.
 Never say
"Fail" again.
Bulwer-Lytton—Richelieu. Act II. Sc. 2.


He that is down needs fear no fall
He that is low, no pride.
Buntan—Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. II.
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 | text = <poem>Now a' is done that men can do,
And a' is done in vain.
Burns—It Was a' for our Rightfu' King.


He that is down can fall no lower.
Butler—HudOrras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 878.
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 | text = <poem>Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.
The camel set out to get him horns and was
shorn of his ears.
Erasmus—Adagia. Chil. III. Cent. V. 8.
heading. Greek proverb from Apostolius.
IX. 59 b. VIH. 43. English a free translation of the same from the rendering of the
Proverb applied to Baalam by the Rabbis
of the Talmud. Sanhedrin. 106 a.


He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
Fuller—Medicina Gymnastica. Vol. X. P. 7.
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 | text = <poem>Failed the bright promise of your early day?
Bishop Heber—Palestine. L. 113.


Greatly begin! Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime—
Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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You may boldly say, you did not plough
Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands
With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
Masslnger—The Renegado. Arenas arantes.
Plough the sands. Phrase used by Mr.
Asqutth, Nov. 21, 1894, at Birmingham.
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 | work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
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Sec. 2. Mem. 1. Subs. 2.
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 | text = <poem>"All honor to him who shall win the prize,"
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries and fails and dies,
I give great honor and dory and tears.
Joaquin Miller—For Those Who Fail.