Success

Hi!
I went antique shopping on saturday and found a wonderful old arithmetic book published in 1883 for 3 dollars!! In the book of well aged pages was a little poem clipped from a paper...I want to share it with you.
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If you're afraid of a setback or two,
If you're afraid of a jolt or a jar.
If hard work is something which terrifies you,
then stay where you are
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If more than a chance for success you desire,
If you're afraid of a blow and its smart,
If you've no pluck for the fight when you tire. You'd better not start.
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If you can't trudge through the rain and snow. Forgetting the calm of an easier task,
If always the comforts of life you must know.
For glory don't ask.
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If you can't stand to the battle alone, can't cling to your purpose through thick and thin,
If pleasure means more than the goal you would own,
You've no chance to win.
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If you've the will to be somebody here, If stronger your spirit rebounds from a blow, If you will work for it year after year,
Success you may know.
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Also at the antique store I got old christmas tags and seals, never opened from their packages (what a treasure), an old ledger book, easter bunny die cuts, old christmas magazines from 1965 (before I was born, they sure made some dorky stuff!) It was an all paper haul.