Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.
... life is too short to do the whole.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.