_Success Magazine_ appropriately publishes these lines:
There is no failure. God’s immortal plan
Accounts no loss a lesson learned for man.
Defeat is oft the discipline we need
To save us from the wrong, or teaching heed
To errors which would else more dearly cost--
A lesson learned is ne’er a battle lost.
Whene’er the cause is right, be not afraid;
Defeat is then but victory delayed--
And e’en the greatest vic’tries of the world
Are often won when battle-flags are furled.
(3094)
See FAILURE LEADING TO SUCCESS.