Do but gently heave the heart:
E'en the tears they shed alone
Cure, like trickling balm, their smart.
Lovers, when they lose their breath,
Bleed away in easy death.
John Dryden
"TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK
HAS COME TO NOTHING"
by William Butler Yeats
"Now all the truth is out, / Be secret and take defeat..."
Now all the truth is out,
Be secret and take defeat from any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honor bred, with one
Who, were it proved he lies,
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbors' eyes?Bred to a harder thing
Than triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
Where on mad fingers play
Amid a place of stone,
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known,
That is most difficult.1913
So you have suffered a setback?
Temporary setbacks in life need not mean permanent defeat;
You are not the only one to have failed.
if you have ever failed, look at Lincoln's failures and take heart!
