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Nearly every big success is built upon a failure.
I was told that Edgar Bergen lost his part in a Broadway production because they did not want any more dummies. Noel Coward got him on the Rudy Vallee radio hour, and he and Charlie McCarthy became famous over night.
I told the story, at one of my meetings of a man who was so poor and discouraged that he ended it all. A few days later came a letter notifying him that he had inherited a large fortune.
A man in the meeting said, "That means, when you want to be dead, your demonstration is three days off." Yes, do not be fooled by the darkness before the dawn.
It is a good thing to see the dawn once in a while, to convince you how unfailing it is. It reminds me of an experience of several years ago.
I had a friend who lived in Brooklyn near Prospect Park. She liked to do unusual things and said to me, "Come to visit me and we'll get up early and see the sunrise in Prospect Park."
At first I refused, and then came the hunch that it would be an interesting experience.
It was in the summer. We got up about four o'clock, my friend, her little daughter and myself. It was pitch dark, but we sallied forth down the street, to the entrance of the Park.
Some policemen eyed us curiously, but my friend said to them with dignity, "We are going to see the sunrise" and it seemed to satisfy them. We walked through the park to the beautiful rose garden.
A faint pink streak appeared in the East, then
