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Failing to plan is planning to fail

Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Lesson: Don't lose your pen

1. Lost Your Pen = No Pen
2. No Pen = No Notes
3. No Notes = No Study
4. No Study = Fail
5. Fail = No Diploma
6. No Diploma = No Work
7. No Work = No Money
8. No Money = No Food
9. No Food = You Get Skinny
10. Skinny = Then You Get Ugly...

To try and fail is not laziness.

To try and to fail is not laziness.

Evil prospers because good men fail to act.

The wind that carried the mortar will not fail to carry the pestle.

Strive though you fail.

Friends and mules fail us in hard places.

You must act as if it is impossible to fail.

You fail if you're afraid. Or brave, you may become a king.

If his legs fail him, he fights on his knees.

The man will surely fail, who dares delay, And lose to-morrow that has lost to-day.

You may gain by fair words what may fail you by angry ones.

The Lord will not fail to come, though he may not come on horseback.

The abbey does not fail for want on one monk.

Friends and mules fail in hard trials.

If you fail to practice your art, it will soon disappear.

They who deserve honour, fail of it; and they who obtain it, do not deserve it.