Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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From President George H. Brimhall SUCCESS FAILURES 1. Failures in good causes are but suspended successes. 2. Morning defeats in reform are afternoon victories. 3. Every strangled call of Freedom is a bugle blast of Liberty. 4. Whenever a hero goes down heroism rises. 5. Out of the ruins of peace plans will grow the Millennium. FAILURE SUCCESSES 1. An unfair victory is a defeat for the winner. It eliminates him from the honor class. 2. Unmerited credits are handicaps. They prevent one from ever reaching the safety zone. 3. The gamblers winnings are always losses. They are bad- habit seed. 4. Unearned wages are unfortunate acceptances. They stop work and spoil the worker. 5. The achievements of trickery are gains with the minus sign before them. Their cost is self -respect. 6. Pleasures purchased outside the law must always be paid for — many times with pain. 7. To rise on the ruins of another is to sink into the pit of unfitness. 8. The exaltation of unrighteous dominion is self-degreda- tion. Slave making is the most abject slavery. 9. Investment in iniquity may bear small dividends of grati- fication, but they always carry with them the ruinous assessments of sorrow. 10. Success in self-deception is failure in self-examination.