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The theme of failure is universal, yet Alfred Austin manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on failure often shapes our reality.

About Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury in the General Election of 1895. Austin's poems are little remembered today, his most popular work being prose idylls celebrating nature. Wilfred Scawen Blunt wrote of him, "He is an acute and ready reasoner, and is well read in theology and science. It is strange his poetry should be such poor stuff, and stranger still that he should imagine it immortal."

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"Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think."

— Alfred Austin
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"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."

— Alfred Austin
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"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."

— Alfred Austin
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."

— Alfred Austin
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"Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works."

— Eric Ries
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

— Ernest Hemingway
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"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably."

— Bertolt Brecht
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"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

— Jerry Falwell
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