No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words "fai… - Frederic Farrar

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words "failure" and "success." and measure them by the eternal, not by the earthly standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be preeminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross — was that a failure? Nay, my brethren.it was the death of Him who lived that we might follow His footsteps, it was the life, it was the death of the Son of God.

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About Frederic Farrar

Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903), often known as Dean Farrar, was a theological writer.

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Alternative Names: Frederic William Farrar Frederick William Farrar Very Rev. Frederick William Farrar
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