“Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.” MenWayHumansHopeEnemyBreakGreaterFailingComfortDevilHardestMiserableHuman LifeNecksYieldSmoothCalamityBeamPresumptuous Author:Owen Feltham
“If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayTryingFactsInspirationLosesKnow HowFailingOne ThingWillingSucceedScaredBest WayHardestDo The BestTrying My Hardest Author:Kanye West
“That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.” MenFirstsStillsHardHelpingHumanityHoursFailingDogInfiniteHardestRejectionDespiseObscurityClans Book:Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities Source: Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities