The never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]

Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]

Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess.
The might - the majesty of Loveliness? [ Byron ]

It is an equal failing to trust every body and to trust no body. [ Proverb ]

Light, or, failing that, lightning--the world can take its choice. [ Carlyle ]

Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy. [ Massinger ]

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. [ Lowell ]

That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. [ Bacon ]

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns. [ Robert Herrick ]

How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. [ Goethe ]

After the fever of life - after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding - after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death - at length the white throne of God - at length the beatific vision. [ Newman ]

Perpetually or Continually? Perpetual means never ceasing, continuing without interruption; continual, of frequent recurrence, etc., with occasional interruptions. Indolent pupils are perpetually failing in the tasks assigned them. Here the proper word is continually. Time is perpetual; frequent disregard of our duties is continual. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]