Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

PROFITING BY FAILURE

Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast?

Dost reel jrom righteous retribution's blow?

Then turn jrom blotted archives oj the past

And jind the juture's pages white as snow.

Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee jrom thy spell;

Art thou a sinner? Sin may be jorgiven;

Each morning gives thee wings to jlee jrom hell,

Each night a star to guide thy jeet to heaven.

FAILURE-

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AN AFTER-THE-LESSON VISIT WITH THE AUTHOR

An all-wise Providence has arranged the affairs of mankind so that
every person who comes into the age of reason must bear the cross
of failure in one form or another.
The heaviest and most cruel of all the crosses is poverty.
Hundreds of millions of people living on this earth today find it
necessary to struggle under the burden of this cross in order to enjoy
the three bare necessities of life: a place to sleep, something to eat,
and dothes to wear.
Carrying the cross of poverty is no joke, but it seems significant
that some of the greatest and most successful men and women who
ever lived found it necessary to carry this cross before they "arrived."

Failure is generally accepted as a curse. But few people ever understand
that failure is a curse only when it is accepted as such, and few ever
learn the truth that failure is seldom permanent.
Go back over your own experiences for a few years and you will
see that your failures generally turned out to be blessings in disguise.
Failure teaches people lessons that they would never learn without it.
Among the great lessons taught by failure is that of humility.