English Story: Personal History of a "Failure"

See the following extraordinary personal history of failure:

Lost job, 1832; defeated for legislature, 1832; failed in business,1833;
elected to legislature, 1834; sweetheart died, 1835;
had nervous breakdown, 1836; defeated for Speaker, 1838;
defeated for nomination for Congress, 1843; elected to Congress, 1846;
lost renomination, 1848; rejected for land officer, 1849;
defeated for Senate, 1854; defeated for nomination for Vice-President, 1856;
again defeated for Senate, 1858;
but in 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.

So don\'t let failure stop you from trying. If you don\'t try, you
guarantee failure. If you do try you have the chance to succeed, but
failure is still a possibility.

Don\'t waste time worrying about what went wrong, you can learn
something from every experience.

When you do something you\'ve never done before, no matter how poorly
it turns out, you\'re on your way to doing it better the next time.

I like to read people\'s stories, I wish you could have a better story.