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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Fundamentals of Success by Hiram Abiff Boas, published in 1923.

No normal person wants to fail. Failure takes the sparkle from the eye, the color from the

cheek, the edge from the intellect, and the nerve from the eye, the color from the cheek, the edge from the intellect, and the nerve

from the arm. The sense of failure depresses and dejects. It takes the sunshine out of life

and brings the shadow. It takes joy from the heart and spreads sorrow and gloom.

To fail, utterly robs life of all satisfaction and contentment, and fills it with misery and disappointment.

And yet many do fail. Failures are on every hand. Not only do college students fail in the classroom, but people fail in every line of endeavor.

They fail as lawyers and doctors, as ministers and carpenters, as farmers and shopkeepers, and in all other fields.

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