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Here was the opportunity then, to embody in one imaginative statesman all the interest which for a generation had been accumulating in favour of the democratic revival. At any rate, after thirty years of Republican half-success and half-failure, here was the chance for a new deal. Amid a mob of shopworn public men, here was one who had at least the charm of novelty.
Coffee in the drawing-room was only a half-success so long as the gentlemen sat over their wine; and as for the daily cigarette Nina smoked with it, Kate, in her simplicity, believed it was only done as a sort of protest at being deserted by those unnatural protectors who preferred poteen to ladies.
Why should you be content with failure or half-success if the triumphant power to accomplish, the masterful will to succeed is right within your grasp? Why should you continue to stammer if you can be cured? The answer is, YOU SHOULD NOT.
Let no soul think that to say God undertook a hard labour in willing that many sons and daughters should be sharers of the divine nature, is to abate his glory! The greater the difficulty, the greater is the glory of him who does the thing he has undertaken without shadow of compromise, with no half-success, but with a triumph of absolute satisfaction to innumerable radiant souls!
Defeat was, in that case, converted to a sort of triumph; and having gone within one step of victory for so this half-success was estimated was the strongest incentive to a renewal of the effort. It might be, therefore, that the ranger's adoption of the custom was a measure of self-defence.
Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed claque, and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power. His subjects were "The English Renaissance" and "House Decoration."
The artfulness with which he had contrived to make himself and his character a question of discussion achieved only a half-success, for she only gave one of her most meaningless smiles as she said, 'I do not know; I am not quite sure. 'And yet I am more concerned to learn what you would think on this score than for the opinion of the whole world.
Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed "claque", and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power. His subjects were "The English Renaissance" and "House Decoration."
I had no feeling before that moment at the railway-station, except " For once Sue was as miserable as he, in her attempts to keep herself free from emotion, and her less than half-success. "Don't cry, dear!" he implored. "I am not crying because I meant to love you; but because of your want of confidence!"
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