How Melancholy A Thing Is Success. Whilst Failure Inspirits A Man, Attainment Reads The Sad Prosy Lesson That All Our Glories "are Shadows, Not Substantial Things." Truly Said The Sayer, "disappointment Is The Salt Of Life" A Salutary Bitter Which Strengthens The Mind For Fresh Exertion, And Gives A Double Value To The Prize.

-Richard Francis Burton

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How Melancholy A Thing Is Success. Whilst

Richard Francis Burton

How Melancholy A Thing Is Success. Whilst Failure Inspirits A Man, Attainment Reads The Sad Prosy Lesson That All Our Glories "are Shadows, Not Substantial Things." Truly Said The Sayer, "disappointment Is The Salt Of Life" A Salutary Bitter Which Strengthens The Mind For Fresh Exertion, And Gives A Double Value To The Prize.

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Disappointment

Giving

Mind

All So-called Revealed Religions Consist Mainly Of Three Portions, A Cosmogony More Or Less Mythical, A History More Or Less Falsified, And A Moral Code More Or Less Pure.

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Moral

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