You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. (Orison Swett Marden)

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Orison Swett Marden

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