"Struggle, failure, triumph: while triumph is the thing sought, struggle has its joy, and failure is not without its uses. "It is not the goal, " says Jean Paul, "but the course which makes us happy. " The law of life is what a great orator affirmed of oratory-"Action, action, action! " As soon as one point is gained, another, and another presents itself. "It is a mistake, " says Samuel Smiles, "to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure. " He cites, among others, the example of Cowper, who, through his diffidence and shyness, broke down when pleading his first cause, and lived to revive the poetic art in England; and that of Goldsmith, who failed in passing as a surgeon, and yet wrote the "Deserted Village" and the "Vicar of Wakefield. " Even when one turns to no new course, how many failures, as a rule, mark the way to triumph, and brand into life, as with a hot iron, the lessons of defeat! "

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