Famous quotes containing the word fails:
“If fancy then
Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task,
Ah, what shall language do?”
—James Thomson (17001748)
“Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)