Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

About Samuel McChord Crothers

Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857 in Oswego, Illinois–November 1927) was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.

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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

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I see someone who's trying very hard. I see someone who's nervous, but stronger than she knows. I see someone who's worried, but doesn't need to be.

—Ruth Ware in The Lying Game

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I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best.

—Katherine Center in The Lost Husband

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

—Edith Wharton

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

—G. K. Chesterton

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I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God's.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

God help trying

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