No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross—was that a failure.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Work
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is “folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.” But with common sense, it is wisdom; with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Knowledge, Common Sense
No soul can preserve the bloom and delicacy of its existence without lonely musings and silent prayer, and the greatness of this necessity is in proportion to the greatness of evil.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Meditation
Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of his neighbors.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Liberty
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Eternity
Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the future by the past.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Past
There is only one real failure possible; and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Failures, Failure, Mistakes
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