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Success in Failure

Improvement Era, vol. 13, no. 5, March 1910, p. 399

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home, yes, a home and a heart, will be open for some 'tricky, ill-bred' foundling of these cruel streets.

Success in Failure.

If you do your best, there is no need of fretting because you do not win, or succeed. To have things come your way is not always to win or to succeed. "It reminds me," says a respected college graduate, "of my athletic days. I got quite accustomed to defeat. About the only consolation I got out of my athletics was the knowledge that the exercise did me good. I am glad I

kept at it, though. The more I see and learn of men, the more strongly I believe in Edison's maxim that 'genius is work.' The farther along you get in school or in life, the more men you will meet who have as good or better minds than you have. But if their minds are brighter than yours, it is because they have used them longer, or have made better use of equal time than you have. It is for us all to see that the latter shall net be true in cur case."