Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Fail

His failings lean’d to virtue’s side.
Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 164.

Mac.—If we should fail——
Lady.—We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7.