I do not think all failure's undeserved, <br />And all success is merely someone's luck; <br />Some men are down because they were unnerved, <br />And some are up because they kept their pluck. <br />Some men are down because they chose to shirk; <br />Some men are high because they did their work. <br /> <br />I do not think that all the poor are good, <br />That riches are the uniform of shame; <br />The beggar might have conquered if he would, <br />And that he begs, the world is not to blame. <br />Misfortune is not all that comes to mar; <br />Most men, themselves, have shaped the things <br />they are<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/success-and-failure-5/
