Josephine Preston Peabody — a remark

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“One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.”

On the necessity of struggle for genuine growth rather than resting in achievement · Diary or letter (commonly attributed)

About Josephine Preston Peabody

Josephine Preston Peabody

30 May 1874–4 December 1922

Josephine Preston Peabody, later Josephine Preston Peabody Marks, was born in New York City on 30 May 1874 and died on 4 December 1922. During her comparatively short life she became one of the most admired American poets and verse dramatists of the early twentieth century. She was praised for a voice at once musical…

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