"He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass."
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"Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought."
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"Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself."
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"The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved."
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"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become."
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"As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains."
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"There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice."
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"Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today."
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"If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are."
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"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation."
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"If you would perfect your body, guard your mind."
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"A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition."
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"Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace."
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"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence."
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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration."
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"The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers."
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"A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene."
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"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own."
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"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."
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"Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection."
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