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EVERY MAN A KING or MIGHT IN MIND-MASTERY: The Secret Law of Attraction That Makes You a King - Orison Swett Marden · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: Every man, a king or might in mind Mastery by
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Speaker 1: Orizon Sweat Marten, Chapter one. Steering thought prevents life wrecks.
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Speaker 1: We build our future thought by thought or good or ill,
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Speaker 1: and know it not yet, So the universe is wrought.
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Speaker 1: Thought is another name for fate. Choose then thy destiny,
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Speaker 1: and wait for Love brings love, and hate brings hate.
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Speaker 1: Ellow Wheeler Wilcox, certain man of no great learning, So
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Speaker 1: runs an old legend, fell heir to a ship. He
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Speaker 1: knew nothing of the sea, nothing of navigation or engineering,
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Speaker 1: but the notion seized him to take a voyage and
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Speaker 1: command his own ship. The ship was gotten under way,
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Speaker 1: the self appointed captain, allowing the crew to go ahead
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Speaker 1: with their usual duties. As the multiplicity of operations confused
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Speaker 1: the amateur navigator. Once headed out to sea, however, the
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Speaker 1: work grew simpler and the captain had time to observe
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Speaker 1: what was going on. As he strolled on the forward,
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Speaker 1: he saw a man turning a big wheel. Now this way,
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Speaker 1: now that What in the world is that man doing?
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Speaker 1: He asked, that's the helmsman. He is steering the ship. Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't see any use in his fiddling away there
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Speaker 1: all the time there's nothing but water ahead, and I
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Speaker 1: guess the sails can push her forward. When there's land
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Speaker 1: in sight or a ship coming head on, there'll be
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Speaker 1: time enough to do steering. Put up all the sails
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Speaker 1: and let her go. The order was obeyed, and the
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Speaker 1: few survivors of the wreck that followed had cause to
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Speaker 1: remember the fool captain who thought a ship steered herself.
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Speaker 1: You say no such man ever existed, And you are right.
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Speaker 1: That isn't admitting that no such foolishness exists. However, you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be so foolish, would you think a moment? Are
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Speaker 1: you not in command of something more delicate, more precious
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Speaker 1: than any ship, Your own life, your own mind? How
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Speaker 1: much at tension are you giving to the steering of
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Speaker 1: that mind? Don't you let it go pretty much as
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Speaker 1: it will? Don't you let the winds of anger and
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Speaker 1: passion blow it hither and thither? Don't you let chance, friendships,
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Speaker 1: chance reading, and aimless amusements sway your life into forms
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Speaker 1: you never would have deliberately chosen. Are you really captain
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Speaker 1: of your own ship, driving it to a sure harbor
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Speaker 1: of happiness, peace, and success? If you are not, would
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Speaker 1: you not like to become such a master of the situation.
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Speaker 1: It is simpler than you perhaps think. If you will
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Speaker 1: but realize certain fundamental truths and put to work your
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Speaker 1: own better nature to tell you how and to direct
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Speaker 1: your efforts is the object of this series of little
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Speaker 1: talks on the use of thought in life forming. Considering
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Speaker 1: that mind governs everything in our world, that force has
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Speaker 1: been singularly neglected and misunderstood. Even when tribute has been
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Speaker 1: paid to its power. It has been treated as something unalterable,
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Speaker 1: a tool that could be used if one was born
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Speaker 1: with the genius to do so. Of recent years, the
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Speaker 1: control of thought and its use to modify character already formed,
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Speaker 1: to change even external surroundings, or at least their effect
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Speaker 1: on oneself, and to bring about health, happiness, and success,
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Speaker 1: have been more and more studied and understood. The possibilities
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Speaker 1: of thought training are infinite, its consequence is eternal, and
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Speaker 1: yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into
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Speaker 1: channels that will do them good, but instead leave all
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Speaker 1: to chance, or rather to the myriad circumstances that buffet
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Speaker 1: and compel our mental action. If counter effort be not made,
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Speaker 1: there can be no more important study, no higher duty
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Speaker 1: owe to ourselves and those about us, than this of
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Speaker 1: thought control, of self control which results in self development.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps because thought in itself is intangible and most of
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Speaker 1: us really have so little control over it, there is
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Speaker 1: an impression that direction of mind action is a difficult
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Speaker 1: and abstruse affair, something that requires hard study, leisure, and
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Speaker 1: book knowledge to accomplish. Nothing is further from the truth.
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Speaker 1: Every person, however ignorant, however uncultured, and however busy, has
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Speaker 1: within himself all that is needful, and has all the
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Speaker 1: time needful to remake his intellectual nature, his character, and
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Speaker 1: practically his body. In his life. Every person will have
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Speaker 1: a different task, different problems to solve, and different results
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Speaker 1: to aim at, but the process is practically the same,
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Speaker 1: and the transformation is no more impossible for one than
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Speaker 1: for another. A sculptor's chisel in the hands of a
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Speaker 1: bungler may mar the loveliest statue. In the hands of
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Speaker 1: a criminal, it may become a burglar's tool or a
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Speaker 1: murderer's bludgeon. With the power in our hands to make
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Speaker 1: or mar our natures, what reckless fools we are not
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Speaker 1: to try to know how to produce beauty and harmony, happiness,
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Speaker 1: and success. The sculptor dares not strike random blows while
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Speaker 1: gazing away from the marble with eyes steadfast. He makes
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Speaker 1: every stroke count toward the final result, and that result
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Speaker 1: he has fixed in his mind and in the model
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Speaker 1: he has made after his ideas. We must do likewise
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Speaker 1: in chiseling our character, forming our environment, making our lives.
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Speaker 1: We must know what we want. No we can get
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Speaker 1: it and set ourselves directly at the task, never relenting
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Speaker 1: or relaxing in its performance. The difference between our thought
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Speaker 1: and an ordinary tool is that we must do something
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Speaker 1: with it. We cannot lay it down and say we
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Speaker 1: shall strike no blow. We must think, and every thought
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Speaker 1: is a blow that forges a part of our lives.
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Speaker 1: Let us therefore resolutely determine to turn thought to good use,
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Speaker 1: to the best use, and then stiffen our will to
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Speaker 1: carry out that determination. However earnestly we may set about
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Speaker 1: this important task. Life long habits and set ways of
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Speaker 1: thinking will make it difficult for adults. The great field
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Speaker 1: for work in this direction of thought control is with
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Speaker 1: the new generation. As N. E. Carter says, If parents
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Speaker 1: and guardians would devote their energies to teaching the young
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Speaker 1: under their care the lesson of thought control. Instead of
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Speaker 1: laying so much stress upon and enforcing obedience to external authority,
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Speaker 1: the problem of upbringing the rising generation would be wonderfully simplified,
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Speaker 1: and a much higher order of human beings would soon
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Speaker 1: appear upon this planet. The child taught to hold right
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Speaker 1: thoughts and to expel wrong ones by governing its own
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Speaker 1: mental realm, needs less and less external authority, and will
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Speaker 1: grow up pure minded and truthful because of having nothing
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Speaker 1: to hide, nothing to repress. Mental control is the only
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Speaker 1: self control, and those who learn it early escape unhappiness
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Speaker 1: and many hard experiences which darken the lives of those
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Speaker 1: who fail to learn the greatest of all life's lessons. Thus,
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Speaker 1: for our own sakes and for the sakes of those
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Speaker 1: tender beings whose lives are largely in our keeping, let
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Speaker 1: us consider the great blessings that will flow from proper
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Speaker 1: understanding and control of our own life forces. Chapter two,
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Speaker 1: How mind rules the body. It is astonishing what power
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Speaker 1: our mind has over our body. Let the mind therefore
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Speaker 1: always be the master Gerda. Before one can do much
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Speaker 1: toward control thought, there must be realization of its power
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Speaker 1: and importance, not mere acceptance of a statement. You must feel.
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Speaker 1: You must be convinced that a bad thought harms you,
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Speaker 1: that a good thought helps you. There must be no
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Speaker 1: playing with fire and a careless feeling that it matters
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Speaker 1: little if you are off your guard part of the time.
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Speaker 1: You must know in your inmost consciousness that thought alone
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Speaker 1: is eternal, that it is the master of your fate,
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Speaker 1: and that the thought of every moment has its part
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Speaker 1: in deciding that fate. You must feel that proper control
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Speaker 1: of your own thoughts will cause all good things to
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Speaker 1: come naturally to you, just as all bad things will
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Speaker 1: be your portion if you misuse your God given powers.
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Speaker 1: Such realization must come through consideration of proved facts. Thought
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Speaker 1: is being recognized more and more at its proper value
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Speaker 1: in the work of the world, material and moral, by
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Speaker 1: people of views varying greatly in detail. The power of
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Speaker 1: thought is stated to be almost omnipotent in human affairs.
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Speaker 1: Practical demonstrations of seemingly marvelous results are convincing unthinking and
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Speaker 1: material minds. Scientific experiments, instead of destroying the claims of
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Speaker 1: the thinkers, substantiate them and give scientific explanations. Professor W. G.
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Speaker 1: Anderson of Yale University succeeded in practically weighing a thought
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Speaker 1: or the result of a thought's action. A student was
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Speaker 1: poised on a balance so that the center of gravity
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Speaker 1: of his body was exactly over its center, set to
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Speaker 1: solving mathematical problems. The increased weight of blood at his
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Speaker 1: head changed his center of gravity and caused an immediate
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Speaker 1: dip of the balance to that side. Repeating the nine
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Speaker 1: multiplication table caused a greater displacement than repeating the table
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Speaker 1: of fives, and in general the displacement grew greater with
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Speaker 1: greater intensity of thought. Carrying the experiment further, the experimenter
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Speaker 1: had the student imagine himself going through leg gymnastics. As
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Speaker 1: he performed the feats mentally, one by one, the blood
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Speaker 1: flowed to the limbs in quantity sufficient to tip the
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Speaker 1: balance according to the movement thought of by purely mental action,
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Speaker 1: the center of gravity of the body was shifted four inches,
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Speaker 1: or as much as by raising the doubled arms above
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Speaker 1: the shoulders. These experiments were repeated on a large number
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Speaker 1: of students with the same results. To test still further
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Speaker 1: the mastering influence of mind over muscle, the strength of
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Speaker 1: the right and left arms of eleven young men was registered.
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Speaker 1: The average strength of the right arms was one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eleven pounds, of the left arms ninety seven pounds.
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Speaker 1: The man practiced special exercises with the right hand only
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Speaker 1: for one week. Tests of both arms were again made,
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Speaker 1: and while the average strength of the right arm had
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Speaker 1: increased six pounds, that of the unexercised left arm had
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Speaker 1: increased seven pounds. This showed clearly that the brain action
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Speaker 1: connected with the gymnastics developed not only the muscles put
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Speaker 1: in action, but also other muscles controlled by the same
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Speaker 1: portion of the brain. This could come about only by
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Speaker 1: sending blood and nervous fores to the proper parts by
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Speaker 1: purely mental action. Doctor Anderson says of the results, I
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Speaker 1: can prove by my muscle bed that the important thing
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Speaker 1: in all exercises is the mental effort put forth. I
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Speaker 1: can lie down on this muscle bed and think of
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Speaker 1: a jig, and though apparently my feet do not move,
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Speaker 1: and actually the muscles are not active, the muscle bed
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Speaker 1: sinks toward my feet, showing that there has been a
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Speaker 1: flow of blood toward the muscles, and that if I
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Speaker 1: did dance a jig, the muscles would be well supplied
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Speaker 1: with blood. Under this mental stimulus. Sando has long taught
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Speaker 1: that bodily exercise without proper thought would do little to
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Speaker 1: develop muscles, and that a very little exercise with the
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Speaker 1: mind directing it will practically rebuild the body. Certain professors
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Speaker 1: of physical culture are selling this knowledge for good prices.
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Speaker 1: Professor Anderson's experiments demonstrate the truth of these statements, and
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Speaker 1: further that exercise involving competition and lively interest in games
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Speaker 1: does far more good than merely mechanical movements performed without
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Speaker 1: interest in jimnasiums. He says that walking is poor exercise
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Speaker 1: for brain workers, as it is so purely automatic that
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Speaker 1: it does not call the blood from congested brain centers
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Speaker 1: which go on solving intellectual problems. A run, a brisk
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Speaker 1: walk with a definite object necessitating the thought of speed,
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Speaker 1: will send the blood to the legs and build them up.
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Speaker 1: Exercising before a mirror, watching the muscles swell with the
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Speaker 1: different motions is found to aid development. Before these experiments,
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Speaker 1: Professor Elmer Gates at Washington had proved that he was
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Speaker 1: able by thinking intently of a hand when it was
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Speaker 1: plunged in a basin even full of water, and willing
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Speaker 1: that the blood should flow there to make the water overflow.
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Speaker 1: Thus the amount of extra blood sent to the hand
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Speaker 1: could be measured since it corresponded to the overflowed water.
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Speaker 1: Everyone cannot do this on first trial, perhaps not in
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Speaker 1: a hundred trials, but the mind can be trained to
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Speaker 1: such control of the body. Years ago, by experiments on
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Speaker 1: the famous Beaumont, whose wound in the the stomach healed
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Speaker 1: leaving an orifice, physicians demonstrated the great effect of depressing
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Speaker 1: or elevating emotions on digestion and other functions. A telegram
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Speaker 1: announcing disaster collapsed and made feverish the follicles that were
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Speaker 1: actively secreting gastric juice and left food undigested for hours.
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Speaker 1: Recent experiments on dogs by the Russian scientist professor Ivan
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Speaker 1: Pavlov have proved conclusively that secretion of the gastric juice
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Speaker 1: in the stomach does not, as long supposed, take place
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Speaker 1: automatically when saliva is secreted or when food enters the stomach.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, it is secreted when a dog is
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Speaker 1: made to anticipate that it is to be fed with
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Speaker 1: a much loved food as raw meat, even though that
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Speaker 1: meat is not given to it. Or if given is
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Speaker 1: not allowed to pass into the stomach, but drops out
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Speaker 1: of the esophagus by a slit made for that purpose.
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Speaker 1: All manner of mechanical irritation did not avail to cause
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Speaker 1: a flow of gastric juice, unless there was excited an
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Speaker 1: idea of pleasure in eating, if the newmagastric nerve was severed,
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Speaker 1: even and this anticipated gastronomic pleasure, or the actual passage
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Speaker 1: of the loved meat through the sever esophagus did not
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Speaker 1: cause gastric secretion. The part played by the mind in
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Speaker 1: what have been called meta mechanical physical functions has been
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Speaker 1: thus shown. The psychological side of digestion, as of every
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Speaker 1: other manifestation in the body, is the more important. The
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Speaker 1: most wonderful result of the experiments made by Professor Gates
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Speaker 1: was the discovery that certain states of mind produced chemical
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Speaker 1: products in the body. He says, in eighteen seventy nine,
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Speaker 1: I published a report of experiments showing that when the
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Speaker 1: breath of a patient was passed through a tube cooled
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Speaker 1: with ice so as to condense the volatile qualities of
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Speaker 1: the respiration, the iodide of rhodopsin mingled with these condensed products,
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Speaker 1: produced no observable precipitate, but within five minutes after the
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Speaker 1: patient became angry, there appeared a brownish precipitate, which indicates
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Speaker 1: the presence of a chemical compound produced by the emotion.
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Speaker 1: This compound, extracted and administered to men and animals, caused
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Speaker 1: stimulation and excitement. Extreme sorrow, such as mourning for the
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Speaker 1: loss of a child recently deceased, produced a gray precipitate,
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Speaker 1: remorse a pink precipitate, et cetera. My experiments show that irascible, malevolent,
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Speaker 1: and depressing emotions generate in the system in jurious compounds,
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Speaker 1: some of which are extremely poisonous. Also that agreeable, happy
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Speaker 1: emotions generate chemical compounds of nutritious value, which stimulate the
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Speaker 1: cells to manufacture energy. As Professor Gates has had to
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Speaker 1: point out emphatically to counteract ridiculous statements, the color of
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Speaker 1: these precipitates depends on the chemical used, but with the
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Speaker 1: same chemical, the emotions produce different colors. Professor Jacques Lobe's
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Speaker 1: experiments at the University of Chicago and at Stanford University
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Speaker 1: have seemed to show that thought produces phenomena similar to
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Speaker 1: those of electricity that the particles of living matter change
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Speaker 1: from positive to negative and negative to positive by the
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Speaker 1: influence of thought. This makes the old comparison of thought
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Speaker 1: to a telegram from the brain all the more apt,
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Speaker 1: and enlarges the conception of what the mind can do
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Speaker 1: in changing bodily conditions. Chapter three. Thought causes health and disease.
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Speaker 1: It is the spirit that mocketh alive. The flesh profiteth nothing.
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Speaker 1: Every volition and thought of man is inscribed on his brain.
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Speaker 1: For volition and thoughts have their beginnings in the brain,
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Speaker 1: whence they are conveyed to the bodily members, wherein they terminate.
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Speaker 1: Whatever therefore is in the mind be in the brain,
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Speaker 1: and from the brain in the body, according to the
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Speaker 1: order of its parts. Thus a man writes his life
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Speaker 1: in his physique, and thus the angels discover his autobiography
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Speaker 1: in his structure. Speedenborg. It is not necessary to appeal
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Speaker 1: scientific experiments alone to prove the control of the mind
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Speaker 1: over health and disease. Every day expense gives ample demonstration.
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Speaker 1: Striking and interesting incidents by the hundred have been collected
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Speaker 1: and published by physicians. But a fue will suffice. We
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Speaker 1: are so accustomed to the deadly effects of certain kinds
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Speaker 1: and degrees of thought that we do not think what
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Speaker 1: it is that causes illness and death. Someone dies of shock.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Simply that some sudden and powerful
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Speaker 1: thought has so deranged the bodily mechanism that it has
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Speaker 1: stopped fright. That is, a thought of fear stopped the
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Speaker 1: heart's action. Excitement set it beating so hard that a
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Speaker 1: blood vessel burst in the head. Sudden joy caused a
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Speaker 1: rush of blood to the brain that ruptured the delicate membranes.
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Speaker 1: A loved one died, and the thought of grief prevented nutrition,
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Speaker 1: repair of waste, and the performance of other bodily functions
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Speaker 1: dependent on normal mental condition. And the person pined away
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Speaker 1: and died from some disease. The enfeebled body could not resist,
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Speaker 1: or from no disease at all, but the sick and
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Speaker 1: morning thought. Recently, a trolley wire in London broke and
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Speaker 1: fell into the street with sputtering fire. A young lady,
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Speaker 1: seemingly as well as anyone, was about to board a car, but,
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Speaker 1: on seeing the accident, fell dead. Nothing had touched her,
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Speaker 1: she had suffered no harm. She simply thought she was
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Speaker 1: in danger, and thought so intensely that something gave way
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Speaker 1: and separated her spirit from her body. A mind more composed,
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Speaker 1: less easily startled, would have saved her life. A beautiful
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Speaker 1: young lady was struck in the face by a golf stick.
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Speaker 1: It broke her jaw, but that was healed in a
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Speaker 1: few weeks. However, a scar was left that marred her beauty.
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Speaker 1: The idea of disfigurement so preyed upon her mind that
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Speaker 1: she shrank from meeting people, and melancholia became habitual. A
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Speaker 1: trip to Europe expensive treatment by specialists did no good.
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Speaker 1: The idea that she was marred and scarred took all
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Speaker 1: joy from her life, all strength from her body. She
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Speaker 1: soon could not leave her bed. Yet no physician was
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Speaker 1: able to find any organic disease. Very silly, no doubt,
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Speaker 1: but it illustrates what diseased thought can do in overcoming
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Speaker 1: perfectly healthy bodily functions. Had she been able to dismiss
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Speaker 1: the idea she brooded over, her health would have been restored.
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Speaker 1: Fright and grief have often blanched human hair in a
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Speaker 1: few hours or a few days. Ludwig of Bavaria, Marie Antoinette,
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Speaker 1: Charles the First of England, and the Duke of Brunswick
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Speaker 1: are historic examples, and every little while modern instances occur.
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Speaker 1: The supposed explanation is that strong emotion has caused the
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Speaker 1: formation of chemical compounds, probably of sulfur, which changed the
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Speaker 1: color of the oil of the hair. Such chemical action
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Speaker 1: is caused suddenly by thought, instead of gradually by advancing years.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Roger says many causes which affect but little the constitution,
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Speaker 1: accelerate the death of the hair, more especially the depressing passions,
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Speaker 1: corroding anxieties, and intense thought. Men have died because they
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Speaker 1: thought they were terribly wounded when no wound existed. The
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Speaker 1: story of the medical student who was frightened to death
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Speaker 1: by fellow students who pretended to be bleeding him has
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Speaker 1: often been told. A man who thought he swallowed attack
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Speaker 1: had horrible symptoms, including a local swelling in his throat,
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Speaker 1: until it was discovered that he was mistaken. Hundreds of
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Speaker 1: other cases have been verified where beliefs sufficed to produce
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Speaker 1: great suffering and even death. On the other hand, sickness
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Speaker 1: and disease gave way before strong thought of any other kind, excitement,
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Speaker 1: alarm or great joy. Benvenudo Cellini, when about to cast
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Speaker 1: his famous statue of Perseus, now in the Loggia de
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Speaker 1: Lanzay at Florence, was taken with a sudden fever and
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Speaker 1: forced to go home and to bed. In the midst
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Speaker 1: of his suffering, one of his workmen rushed in to say, oh,
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Speaker 1: ben Benudo, your statue is spoiled, and there is no
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Speaker 1: hope whatever of saving it. Dressing hastily, he rushed to
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Speaker 1: his furnace and found his metal caked, ordering dry oak,
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Speaker 1: who brought He fired the furnace fiercely, working in a
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Speaker 1: rain that was falling, stirred the channels and saved his metal.
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Speaker 1: He continues the story. Thus, after all was over, I
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Speaker 1: turned to a plate of salad on a bench there,
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Speaker 1: and ate with a hearty appetite, and drank together with
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Speaker 1: the whole crew. Afterward, I retired to my bed, healthy
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Speaker 1: and happy, for it was now two hours before morning,
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Speaker 1: and slept as sweetly as though I had never felt
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Speaker 1: a touch of illness. His overpowering idea of saving his
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Speaker 1: statue not only drove the idea of illness from his mind,
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Speaker 1: but also drove away the physical condition and left him well.
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Speaker 1: It is related of Mewly Moloch, the Moorish leader that
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Speaker 1: when lying ill, almost worn out by incurable disease, a
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Speaker 1: battle took place between his troops and the Portuguese when,
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Speaker 1: starting from his litter at the great crisis of the fight,
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Speaker 1: he rallied his army, led them to victory, and then
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Speaker 1: instantly sank, exhausted, and expired. The biographer of doctor Alicia
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Speaker 1: Kane says, I asked him for the best proved in
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Speaker 1: that he knew of the soul's power over the body.
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Speaker 1: He paused a moment upon my question, as if to
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Speaker 1: feel how it was put, and answered, as with a spring,
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Speaker 1: the soul can lift the body out of its boots. Sir,
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Speaker 1: When our captain was dying, I say dying. I have
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Speaker 1: body and ulcer. I never saw a case so bad
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Speaker 1: that either lived or died. Men die of it, usually
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Speaker 1: long before they are as ill as he was. There
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Speaker 1: was trouble aboard, there might be mutiny. So soon as
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Speaker 1: the breath was out of his body, we might be
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Speaker 1: at each other's throats. I felt that he owed the
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Speaker 1: repose of dying to the service. I went down to
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Speaker 1: his bunk and shouted in his ear, mutiny captain mutiny.
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Speaker 1: He shook off the cadaverous stupor, set me up, said he,
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Speaker 1: and order these fellows before me. He heard the complaint,
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Speaker 1: ordered punishment, and from that hour convalesced. Emperor dom Pedro
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Speaker 1: of Brazil, lying ill in Europe, was made well by
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Speaker 1: a cablegram from his daughter, acting as his regent, stating
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Speaker 1: that she had signed a decree abolishing slavery in his country,
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Speaker 1: fulfilling a life long plan of the sick emperor. Whence
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Speaker 1: comes the power which enables a frail, delicate woman, invalid
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Speaker 1: for years, unable to wait upon herself, with hardly strength
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Speaker 1: enough to walk across the floor, to rush upstairs, and
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Speaker 1: to drag out sleeping children from a burning home. Whence
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Speaker 1: comes the strength which enables such a delicate creature to
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Speaker 1: draw out furniture and bedding from a house on fire. Certainly,
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Speaker 1: no new strength has been added to the muscle, no
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Speaker 1: new strength to the blood. But still she does what
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Speaker 1: under ordinary conditions would have been impossible for her. In
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Speaker 1: the emergency, she forgets her weakness. She sees only the emergency.
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Speaker 1: The danger of her darling child, the loss of her home,
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Speaker 1: stares her in the face. She believes firmly for the
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Speaker 1: time that she can do what she attempts to do,
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Speaker 1: and she does it. It is changed condition of the mind,
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Speaker 1: not changed blood or muscle that gives the needed energy.
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Speaker 1: The muscle has furnished the power, but the conviction of
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Speaker 1: the ability to do the thing was first necessary. The fire,
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Speaker 1: the danger, the excitement, the necessity of saving life and property,
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Speaker 1: the temporary forgetfulness of her supposed weakness. These were necessary
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Speaker 1: to work the mind to the proper state. Evidence of
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Speaker 1: this power of mind over the body is thrust upon
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Speaker 1: been so long recognizing the signs and making proper deductions
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Speaker 1: and application. Like the power of electricity to leap oceans
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Speaker 1: through the air carrying human messages, it has always existed,
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Speaker 1: but is only beginning to be generally realized. The part
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Speaker 1: played by the mind in the curing of disease is
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Speaker 1: recognized by physicians, and whole books have been written giving
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Speaker 1: instances where the mind has done more than medicine or surgery.
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Speaker 1: One of the highest medical authorities, doctor William Osher, summoned
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Speaker 1: by King Edward the Seventh from Johns Hopkins University to
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Speaker 1: be Regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, says in
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Speaker 1: the Encyclopedia Americana, the psychical method has always played an important,
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Speaker 1: though largely unrecognized part in therapeutics. It is from faith
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Speaker 1: which buoyes up the spirits, sets the blood flowing more
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Speaker 1: freely in the nerves, playing their part without disturbance, that
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Speaker 1: a large part of all cure arises. Despondency or lack
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Speaker 1: of faith will often sink the stoutest constitution almost to
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Speaker 1: death's door. Faith will enable a spoonful of water or
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Speaker 1: a bread pill to do almost miracles of healing when
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Speaker 1: the best medicines have been given over in despair. The
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Speaker 1: basis of the entire profession of medicine is faith in
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Speaker 1: the doctor, his drugs, and his methods. Similarly, doctor Smith
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Speaker 1: Eely Jelliff of Columbia University says in the same encyclopedia,
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Speaker 1: unquestionably the oldest and yet youngest therapeutic agent is suggestion.
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Speaker 1: The power to heal by faith is not the special
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Speaker 1: property of any sect or class, nor the exclusive right
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Speaker 1: of any system. Belief in gods and goddesses, prayer to
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Speaker 1: idols of wood, of stone, of gossamer, fiction, faith in
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Speaker 1: the doctor, belief in ourselves, engendered from within or without.
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Speaker 1: These are all expressions of the great therapeutic value for
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Speaker 1: healing that resides in the influence of mental states on
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Speaker 1: bodily functions. These will not move mountains, They cannot cure consumption.
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Speaker 1: They do not influence a broken leg nor an organic paralysis.
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Speaker 1: But suggestion in its various forms may be and is
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Speaker 1: one of the strongest aids to all therapeutic measures of
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Speaker 1: its abuse by designing hypnotists, blackmailers, clairvoyance, and a motley
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Speaker 1: crew of parasites. Space does not permit particularization. The human
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Speaker 1: mind is credulous, It believes what it wants or wills
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Speaker 1: to believe, and the use of suggestion in therapeutics is
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Speaker 1: one of great power for good and for evil. In
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Speaker 1: this statement, doctor Jelliff is perhaps ultra conservative, for he
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Speaker 1: would certainly admit that the knitting of a broken bone
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Speaker 1: is vitally affected by the state of mind of the patient,
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Speaker 1: which has to do with all the functions of breathing, digestion, assimilation,
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Speaker 1: an excretion and a sturdy resolution has with proper conditions
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Speaker 1: of climate and hygiene, aided in the recovery from the
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Speaker 1: milder stages of consumption, while even the stagnation of paralysis
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Speaker 1: has been stirred into life by violent shocks to the
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Speaker 1: mind and nervous system. Long ago, Sir James Y. Simpson said,
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Speaker 1: the physician knows not and practices not the whole extent
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Speaker 1: of his art when he neglects the marvelous influence of
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Speaker 1: the mind over the body. Churchill has given us the
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Speaker 1: philosophy of health in the verse, the surest road to health,
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Speaker 1: say what they will is never to suppose we shall
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Speaker 1: be ill. Most of those evils we poor mortals know
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Speaker 1: from doctors and imagination Flow Chapter four. Our worst enemy
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Speaker 1: is fear. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose
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Speaker 1: the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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Speaker 1: Shakespeare measure for measure. Thought's most deadly instrument for marring
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Speaker 1: human lives is fear. Fear demoralizes character, destroys ambition, induces
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Speaker 1: or causes disease, paralyzes happiness in self and others, and
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Speaker 1: prevents achievement. It has not one redeeming quality. It is
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Speaker 1: all evil. Physiologists now well know that it impoverishes the
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Speaker 1: blood by demoralizing, assimilation, and cutting off nutrition. It lowers
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Speaker 1: mental and physical vitality, deadens every element of success. It
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Speaker 1: is fatal to the happiness of youth, and is the
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Speaker 1: most terrible accompaniment of old age. Buoyancy flees before its
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Speaker 1: terrifying glance, and cheerfulness cannot dwell in the same house
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Speaker 1: with it. The most extensive of all the morbid mental
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Speaker 1: conditions which reflect themselves so disastrously on the human system,
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Speaker 1: is the state of fear, says doctor William H. Holcombe.
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Speaker 1: It has many degrees or gradations, from the state of
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Speaker 1: extreme alarm, fright, or terror, down to the slightest shade
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Speaker 1: of apprehension of impending evil. But all along the line
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Speaker 1: it is the same thing, a paralyzing impression upon the
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Speaker 1: centers of life, which can produce, through the agency of
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Speaker 1: the nervous system, a vast variety of morbid symptoms in
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Speaker 1: every tissue of the body. Fear is like carbonic acid
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Speaker 1: gas pumped into one's atmosphere, says Horace Fletcher. It causes mental, moral,
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Speaker 1: and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death, death to energy, death
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Speaker 1: to tissue, and death to all growth. Yet from our
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Speaker 1: birth we live in the presence and under the dominion
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Speaker 1: of this demon fear. The child is cautioned a thousand
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Speaker 1: times a year to look out for this, and to
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Speaker 1: look out for that. It may get poisoned, it may
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Speaker 1: get bitten, it may get killed. Something terrible may happen
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Speaker 1: to it if it does not do so. And so
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Speaker 1: men and women cannot bear the sight of some harmless
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Speaker 1: animal or insect, because as children, they were told it
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Speaker 1: would hurt them. One of the crudest things imaginable is
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Speaker 1: to impress into a child's plastic mind the terrible image
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Speaker 1: of fear, which, like the letters cut upon a sapling,
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Speaker 1: grows wider and deeper with age. The baleful shadows of
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Speaker 1: such blasting and blighting pictures will hang over the whole
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Speaker 1: life and shut out the bright sun of joy and happiness.
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Speaker 1: An Australian writer says one of the worst misfortunes which
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Speaker 1: can possibly happen to a growing child is to have
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Speaker 1: a mother who is perpetually tormented by nervous fears. If
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Speaker 1: a mother gives way to fears, morbid, minute and all prevailing,
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Speaker 1: she will inevitably make the environment of her children one
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Speaker 1: of increasing dread and timidity. The background of fear is
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Speaker 1: the habit or instinct of anticipating the worst. The mother
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Speaker 1: who never makes a move or allows her children to
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Speaker 1: make a move without conjuring up a myriad of malign possibilities,
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Speaker 1: embitters the cup of life with a slow acting poison.
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Speaker 1: I know that thousands of boys and girls are today tremulous, weak, passive,
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Speaker 1: unalert on the physical side, simply because they were taught
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Speaker 1: in the Knickerbocker stage or earlier to see the potency
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Speaker 1: of danger in all they did or tried to do.
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Speaker 1: A mother assumes a terrible responsibility when, from silly fears
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Speaker 1: of possible injury, she forbids a child such physical abandon
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Speaker 1: as will promote courage, endurance, self reliance, and self control.
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Speaker 1: For more than twenty years, I have made a study
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Speaker 1: of criminal psychology and of infantile psychology, says doctor Leno Feriani.
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Speaker 1: Thousands of times I have been compelled to recognize the
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Speaker 1: sad fact that at least eighty eight percent of morbidly
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Speaker 1: timid children could have been cured and saved in time
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Speaker 1: by means of common sense principles of psychical and physiological hygiene,
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Speaker 1: in which the main factor is suggestion inspired by wholesome courage,
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Speaker 1: not content with instilling fear of possibly real things. Many
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Speaker 1: mothers and most nurses invent all sorts of bugbears and
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Speaker 1: bogies to frighten poor babies into obedience. They even attempt
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Speaker 1: to induce sleep by telling children, if you don't go
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Speaker 1: right to sleep, a great big bear will come and
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Speaker 1: eat you up. How much sleep would a grown man
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Speaker 1: get in a situation where this was a real possibility.
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Speaker 1: Fear of the dark would seldom exist if parents carefully
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Speaker 1: showed children that nothing is different in the dark from
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Speaker 1: what it is in the light. Instead of so doing,
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Speaker 1: they take pains to people the mysterious dark, with every
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Speaker 1: sort of ogre and monster that human imagination has been
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Speaker 1: able to conjure up. Someone has well expressed in versed
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Speaker 1: this cruel but too common sin against healthy minded childhood.
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Speaker 1: He who checks a child with terror, stops its play
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Speaker 1: and stills its song not alone commits an error, but
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Speaker 1: a grievous moral wrong. Mothers waste much energy in worrying
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Speaker 1: about their children. Some of them cannot take a moment's
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Speaker 1: comfort while their boys or girls are out of their sight.
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Speaker 1: How many times in imagination have you seen your children
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Speaker 1: tumble out of trees and off sheds. How many times
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Speaker 1: have you pictured them d when they went for a
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Speaker 1: sail or escape. How often have you had visions of
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Speaker 1: your boy being brought home from the baseball or football
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Speaker 1: grounds with broken limbs or scarred face? When none of
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Speaker 1: these things happened, what had you to compensate for the
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Speaker 1: hours of mental anguish with consequent lowering of vitality and
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Speaker 1: physical tone. Such useless imaginings of evil make many women
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Speaker 1: old and haggard before their time. The worst of it
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Speaker 1: is that so many think it is their duty and
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Speaker 1: a sign of their great love, to worry all the time,
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Speaker 1: with fearsome and anxious mothers, surrounding children with an atmosphere
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Speaker 1: of dread, and suggesting to them new and unthought of
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Speaker 1: objects of fear. It is not astonishing that the whole
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Speaker 1: world seems burdened and bowed down under a fearful weight
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Speaker 1: of fear and anxiety. Go into almost any gathering, no
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Speaker 1: matter how gay and happy the crowd seemed to be,
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Speaker 1: you will find if you question any one of even
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Speaker 1: the gayest, that the canker worm of fear gnaws at
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Speaker 1: the heart in some form, the fear of accident, of sickness,
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Speaker 1: of poverty, of death, of some terrible misfortune still lingers
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Speaker 1: during the greatest apparent gaiety. Thousands of people thus pass
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Speaker 1: their lives under the shadow of fear, haunted by the
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Speaker 1: dread of some vague impending evil. Many men and women
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Speaker 1: narrow their lives by worrying over what may happen tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: The family cannot afford to have any little legitimate pleasure
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Speaker 1: to travel, or to take the leading magazines or papers.
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Speaker 1: They cannot afford much needed vacations. They must economize on clothes,
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Speaker 1: on food, even and on every form of culture or recreation,
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Speaker 1: costing money simply because times may be hard next year.
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Speaker 1: There may be a financial panic, burges the pessimist. Some
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Speaker 1: of the children may be sick. The times may be bad,
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Speaker 1: our crops may fail. Some business venture may not succeed.
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Speaker 1: We can't tell what might happen, but we must prepare
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Speaker 1: for the worst. The lives of hundreds of families are mutilated,
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Speaker 1: sometimes utterly ruined, by this bugbear of misfortune just head.
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Speaker 1: One of the worst features of this parsimonious, anxious, untrustful
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Speaker 1: way of living is that it stunts the development of
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Speaker 1: young lives and throws its dark shadow over the future
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Speaker 1: as well as the present. A girl or boy, for instance,
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Speaker 1: should go to college this year. Time flies quickly, and
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Speaker 1: almost before they realize it, they will be too old
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Speaker 1: to go. But the father and mother assure themselves that
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Speaker 1: they cannot afford any extra expense. This year, the children
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Speaker 1: must wait a little longer. And every year it is
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Speaker 1: the same, they must wait a little longer. How many
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Speaker 1: men and women are handicapped in their life work, robbed
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Speaker 1: of their possibilities because lacking an education, which parents, in
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Speaker 1: anticipation of reverses that never came postponed until too late.
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Speaker 1: No one should discourage proper economy and frugality. But this
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Speaker 1: gloomy fear that something may happen, this postponing enjoyment, education, culture,
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Speaker 1: travel books, innocent pleasures of every kind until the sensibilities
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Speaker 1: become hardened and untill the esthetic faculties are dead, is
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Speaker 1: a disease of narrow, untrustful souls, which every sane person
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Speaker 1: should combat. Think of the millions of human creatures that
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Speaker 1: God has made and placed on this glad earth, endowed
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Speaker 1: with every faculty possible to enable them to enjoy life,
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Speaker 1: Wasting precious years in worrying and fretting lest something may happen.
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Speaker 1: How pitiful are the anxious, wrinkled faces, the gray hairs,
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Speaker 1: the unhappy expressions of those who worry about possible misfortunes.
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Speaker 1: Not one wrinkle in a thousand, not one gray hair
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Speaker 1: in a million, has been produced by actual ills. The
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Speaker 1: things which turn hair gray and plow fair faces with
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Speaker 1: cruel furrows, which rob the step of elasticity and take
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Speaker 1: the buoyancy from life, or bridges that never were crossed,
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Speaker 1: misfortunes that never came. The sorrows and trials which actually
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Speaker 1: come to us are, except in rare instances, trifling compared
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Speaker 1: with the things about which we worry but which never
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Speaker 1: come to pass. What a waste of energy and human
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Speaker 1: life is in this pernicious habit of anticipating evil. Think
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Speaker 1: of the amount of work you could have accomplished by
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Speaker 1: the mental and physical force you have expended in fearing
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Speaker 1: what might happen, but which did not. Think of the
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Speaker 1: wasted hours in which you planned what you would do
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Speaker 1: if misfortune should come. If we could only rid ourselves
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Speaker 1: of imaginary troubles, our lives would be infinitely happier and healthier. Thus,
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Speaker 1: one of the greatest tasks in character building is to eliminate,
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Speaker 1: to approot, to wipe out completely the baleful effects of
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Speaker 1: fear in all its varieties of manifestation. No one can
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Speaker 1: lead a naturally healthy, sunny, helpful, harmonious life while living
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Speaker 1: in a fear environment. No one can hope to be
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Speaker 1: entirely happy and successful without the destruction the eradication of
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Speaker 1: the fear germs. Were this done, the world would be
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Speaker 1: gloriously changed for the better. It is the duty of
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Speaker 1: every individual to conquer this common enemy in his own mind,
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Speaker 1: and to do all he can to rest other people,
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Speaker 1: especially the young, from the dominion of this phantom monster. Happily,
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Speaker 1: thinkers and investigators have proven that this may be done,
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Speaker 1: and it is a glorious prophecy that coming generations will
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Speaker 1: be taught to banish all fear, to march clear eyed
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Speaker 1: Overcoming Fear. Fear thought, the arch enemy of mankind, can
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Speaker 1: be eliminated from the habit of thought, can be entirely eradicated,
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Speaker 1: but not by repression. Horace Fletcher, in setting about the
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Speaker 1: overcoming of fear, we must first understand what it is
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Speaker 1: we to fear. It is always something that has not
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Speaker 1: yet happened. That is, it is non existent. Trouble is
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Speaker 1: an imaginary, something that we think of and which frightens
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Speaker 1: us with its possibility. Suppose you are afraid of yellow fever,
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Speaker 1: that is, you are afraid of the suffering caused by
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Speaker 1: the disease, and especially of its probable fatal termination. As
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Speaker 1: long as you have not the fever, it does not
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Speaker 1: exist for you. If you have it, it has not
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Speaker 1: killed you yet, and it may not do so. The
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Speaker 1: most that can actually exist for you at any one
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Speaker 1: time is pain and physical weakness. A state of terror
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Speaker 1: aggravates every disagreeable feature of the illness and makes a
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Speaker 1: fatal issue almost certain. It is because this disease is
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Speaker 1: so feared that it is so often fatal, and even
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Speaker 1: its contagion seems to be governed very largely by the
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Speaker 1: fear people have of it. In spite of germs and
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Speaker 1: microscopic proofs of their part in the development of the disease,
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Speaker 1: that is, the germs do not often affect a normal, healthy,
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Speaker 1: fearless person. During a yellow fever epidemic at New Orleans
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Speaker 1: in the days before all the doctors had agreed that
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Speaker 1: the disease is contagious. A young northern teacher arrived at Natchez, Mississippi,
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Speaker 1: in a high fever. Doctor Samuel Cartwright was called the
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Speaker 1: next morning. He, according to doctor William H. Holcombe, called
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Speaker 1: the officers of the hotel and all the regular borders
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Speaker 1: into the parlor and made them a speech something like this.
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Speaker 1: This young lady has yellow fever. It is not contagious.
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Speaker 1: None of you will take it from her, and if
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Speaker 1: you will follow my advice, you will save this town
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Speaker 1: from a panic. And a panic is the hot bed
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Speaker 1: of an epidemic. Say nothing about this case. Ignore it absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Let the ladies of the house help nurse her, and
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Speaker 1: take flowers and delicacies to her, and act altogether as
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Speaker 1: if it were some every day affair, unattended by danger.
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Speaker 1: It will save her life, and perhaps, in the long run,
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Speaker 1: many others. The advised course was agreed to buy all
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Speaker 1: but one woman, who proceeded to quarantine herself in the
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Speaker 1: most remote room of the hotel. The young teacher got well,
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Speaker 1: and no one in the house except this terror stricken
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Speaker 1: woman took yellow fever. Even she recovered. By his great
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Speaker 1: reputation and his strong magnetic power, says doctor Holcombe. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Cartwright dissipated the fears of those around him and prevented
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Speaker 1: an epidemic. For this grand appreciation and successful application of
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Speaker 1: a principle, the power of mind and thought over physical conditions,
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Speaker 1: a power just dawning on the perception of the race,
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Speaker 1: he deserves a nobler monument than any we have accorded
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Speaker 1: heroes and statesmen. Most people are afraid to walk on
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Speaker 1: a narrow place high above ground. If that same narrow
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Speaker 1: space were marked on a broad walk, they could keep
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Speaker 1: within it perfectly and never think of losing balance. The
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Speaker 1: only dangerous thing about walking in such a place is
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Speaker 1: the fear of falling. Steady headed people are simply fearless.
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Speaker 1: They do not allow the thought of possible danger to
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Speaker 1: overcome them, but keep their physical powers under perfect control.
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Speaker 1: An acrobat has only to conquer fear to perform most
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Speaker 1: of the feats that astound spectators. For some feats, special
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Speaker 1: training and development of the muscles or of the eye
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Speaker 1: and judgment are necessary, but a cool, fearless head is
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Speaker 1: all that is necessary for most The images that frighten
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Speaker 1: a child into convulsions in a dark room do not
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Speaker 1: exist for the parent. When the child is convinced that
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Speaker 1: the ghosts and monsters are not real, the terror ceases.
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Speaker 1: A city child who had never walked on the grass
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Speaker 1: showed terror when first placed on yielding turf, and walked
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Speaker 1: as gingerly as if it had been hot iron. There
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Speaker 1: was nothing to be afraid of, but the child thought
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Speaker 1: there was. Once the belief of danger was eradicated, the
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Speaker 1: fear was gone. So it would be with grown up
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Speaker 1: fears if habit, race, thought, and wrong early training did
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Speaker 1: not set us in grooves that are hard to get
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Speaker 1: out of. If we could but once rise to the
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Speaker 1: conviction that fear is but an image of the mind,
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Speaker 1: and that it has no existence except in our consciousness,
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Speaker 1: and no power to harm except that which we give it.
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Speaker 1: take a very common fear, that of losing one's position.
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Speaker 1: The people who make their lives miserable worrying about this
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Speaker 1: possible misfortune have not yet been discharged. As long as
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Speaker 1: they have not, they are suffering nothing. There is no
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Speaker 1: danger of want. The present situation is therefore satisfactory. If
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Speaker 1: discharge comes, it is then too late to worry about
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Speaker 1: its coming, And all previous worrying would have been pure waste,
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Speaker 1: doing no good, but rather weakening one for the necessary
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Speaker 1: struggle to get placed again. The thing to worry about,
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Speaker 1: then will be that another place will not be found.
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Speaker 1: If a place is found, all the worrying will again
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Speaker 1: be useless. Under no circumstances can the worrying be justified
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Speaker 1: by the situation at any particular time. Its object is
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Speaker 1: always an imaginary situation of the future. In overcoming your
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Speaker 1: various fears, follow each one out to its logical conclusion. Thus,
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Speaker 1: and convince yourself that at the present moment, the things
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Speaker 1: you fear do not exist save in your imagination. Whether
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Speaker 1: they ever come to pass in a future or not,
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Speaker 1: your fear is a waste of time, energy, and actual
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Speaker 1: bodily and mental strength. Quit worrying, just as you would
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Speaker 1: quit eating or drinking something you felt sure had caused
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Speaker 1: you pain in the If you must worry about something,
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Speaker 1: worry about the terrible effects of worrying. It may help
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Speaker 1: you to a cure. Merely convincing yourself that what you
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Speaker 1: fear is imaginary will not suffice until you have trained
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Speaker 1: your mind to throw off suggestions of fear and to
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Speaker 1: watchfulness and alert mental effort. When the thoughts of foreboding
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Speaker 1: indulge them and let them grow big and black, but
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Speaker 1: change your thought. Think of all that tends in the
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Speaker 1: opposite direction. If the fear is of personal failure, instead
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Speaker 1: of thinking how little and weak you are, how ill
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Speaker 1: prepared for the great task, and how sure you are
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Speaker 1: to fail, think how strong and competent you are, how
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Speaker 1: you have done similar tasks, and how you are going
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Speaker 1: to utilize all your past experience and rise to this
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Speaker 1: present occasion. Do the task triumphantly, and be ready for
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Speaker 1: a bigger one. It is such an attitude as this,
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Speaker 1: whether consciously assumed or not, that carries men to higher
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Speaker 1: and yet higher places. This same principle of crowding out
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Speaker 1: the fear thought by a buoyant, hopeful, confident thought can
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Speaker 1: be applied to all the many kinds of fear that
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Speaker 1: daily and hourly beset us. At first, it will be
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Speaker 1: hard to change the current of thought to cease to
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Speaker 1: dwell on somber and depressing things. An aid in the
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Speaker 1: process is often advisable. A sudden change of work to
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Speaker 1: something requiring concentration of mind will often act as a switch.
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Speaker 1: Recalling some humorous or pleasant incident will often drive dull
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Speaker 1: care away. As the school song has it, a very
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Speaker 1: interesting or very humorous book is pretty sure to work
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Speaker 1: well if one really reads with attention. In the last analysis,
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Speaker 1: all fear resolves itself into fear of death, and writers
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Speaker 1: on the means of getting rid of fear dwell, especially
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Speaker 1: on this basic form. Death will perhaps always be a mystery,
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Speaker 1: but whatever view of it be taken, a logical analysis
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Speaker 1: will remove the terror of it, especially that form which
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Speaker 1: makes lifeless human flesh a repulsive and terrible object. We
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Speaker 1: think the feeling that Hindus have about the flesh of
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Speaker 1: animals is very queer, since to us this is most
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Speaker 1: appetizing food. Our own fear of a human corpse is
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Speaker 1: just as foolish as the Hindu fear, And if we
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Speaker 1: would rid ourselves of fear, we must teach ourselves so
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Speaker 1: familiarity with the thing feared is always advisable, and frequently
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Speaker 1: is quite sufficient. We know this to be true with horses,
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Speaker 1: and have only to apply the matter to our own
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Speaker 1: foolish fears Horace Fletcher advises even a course in a
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Speaker 1: hospital dissecting room, if nothing else, will dissipate the unreasoning
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Speaker 1: fear of a dead body. Whatever may lie beyond the tomb,
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Speaker 1: says W. E. H Lecky, the tomb itself is nothing
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Speaker 1: to us. The narrow prison house, the gloomy pomp, the
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Speaker 1: hideousness of decay are known to the living, and the
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Speaker 1: living alone by a too common illusion of the imagination.
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Speaker 1: Men picture themselves as consciously dead, going through the process
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Speaker 1: of corruption, and aware of it, imprisoned with a knowledge
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Speaker 1: of fact in the most hideous of dungeons. Endeavor earnestly
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Speaker 1: to erase this illusion from your mind, for it lies
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Speaker 1: at the root of the fear of death, and it
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Speaker 1: is one of the worst sides of medieval and much
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Speaker 1: modern art that it tends to strengthen it nothing. If
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Speaker 1: we truly realize it is less real than the grave.
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Speaker 1: We should be no more concerned with the after fate
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Speaker 1: of our discarded bodies than with that of the hair
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Speaker 1: which the hair cutter has cut off. The sooner they
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Speaker 1: are resolved into their primitive elements, the better the imagination
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Speaker 1: should never be suffered to dwell upon their decay, whatever
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Speaker 1: the means. The task of conquering fear is the most
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Speaker 1: important in character building, and it will repay any effort.
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Speaker 1: Not until this is done and effectively finally done, can
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Speaker 1: the human soul take its proper place, rise to its
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Speaker 1: God given dominion, and progress to higher and yet higher
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Speaker 1: planes of power. Chapter six. Killing emotions Anger and worry
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Speaker 1: not only dwarf and depress, but sometimes kill. Horace Fletcher,
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Speaker 1: violence is transient. Hate, wrath, vengeance are all forms of fear,
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Speaker 1: and do not endure. Silent persistent effort will dissipate them all.
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Speaker 1: Be strong, Albert Hubbard. Fear is not the only emotion
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Speaker 1: that can do us deadly harm. Weak Hearted persons are
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Speaker 1: warned at peril of their lives against all unusual and
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Speaker 1: disturbing emotions, but the injury to sounder persons is only
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Speaker 1: of lesser degree. Many a violent paroxysm of rage has
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Speaker 1: caused apoplexy and death. Grief, long standing jealousy, and corroding
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Speaker 1: anxiety are responsible for many cases of insanity. Emotion thus
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Speaker 1: kills reason. Grief is one of the best known and
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Speaker 1: most recognized of these killing emotions, as has already been mentioned,
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Speaker 1: Correggio is said to have died of chagrin that he
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Speaker 1: received only forty ducats for a picture that is now
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Speaker 1: one of the treasures of the Dresden Gallery. Keats died
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Speaker 1: of criticism too keen for his sensibilities, as have hundreds
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Speaker 1: of other sensitive souls. Instances are not rare of young
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Speaker 1: girls dying from disappointment in love. Even joy kills when
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Speaker 1: its impact is too sudden. The daily papers sometimes tell
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Speaker 1: of an aged parent dying on the sudden arrival of
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Speaker 1: a long lost child, or of the news of a
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Speaker 1: great good fortune having a fatally exciting effect. A man
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Speaker 1: in Paris died when his number proved a winning one
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Speaker 1: in a lottery. Surprise at her son's bringing home. A
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Speaker 1: bride killed Missus Korea of Kopaique and why in five minutes.
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Speaker 1: Even if the emotion is not strong enough to kill,
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Speaker 1: its effect may be most injurious. A fit of anger
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Speaker 1: will destroy appetite, check digestion, and unsettle the nerves for
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Speaker 1: hours or even days. It upsets the whole physical make up, and,
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Speaker 1: by reaction, the mental and the moral. Just as it
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Speaker 1: changes a beautiful face to a hideous one, it changes
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Speaker 1: the whole disposition for the time being. Anger in a
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Speaker 1: mother may even poison a nursing child. Extreme anger or
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Speaker 1: fright may produce jaundice, and these or other emotions sometimes
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Speaker 1: cause vomiting. Jealousy will upset the entire system and is
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Speaker 1: one of the most deadly enemies to health, happiness, and success.
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Speaker 1: Victims of jealousy oftentimes lose their health entirely until the
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Speaker 1: cause is removed, and become so demoralized mentally that they
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Speaker 1: commit murder or suicide or go insane. A standing headline
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Speaker 1: in Paris newspapers is DRAM's Passionels Tragedies from passion. A
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Speaker 1: strong continual hatred will sometimes not only destroy digestion, assimilation,
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Speaker 1: and peace of mind, but also absolutely ruined character. These
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Speaker 1: bodily effects of the emotions and many others, are in
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Speaker 1: part due to certain chemical products formed in the body
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Speaker 1: by the emotions. Medical men say that they are analogous
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Speaker 1: to the venom of poisonous snakes, which is likewise secreted
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Speaker 1: under the e influence of fear and anger. The snake
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Speaker 1: has a sack in which to store the venom. We
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Speaker 1: have none, and it spreads through all the tissues in
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Speaker 1: spite of efforts to eliminate it. Professor Elmer Gates, who
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Speaker 1: these depressing emotions, the respiration goes on at a slower rate,
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Speaker 1: the circulation is retarded, digestion is impaired, the cheeks become pale,
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Speaker 1: the eyes grow lustreless, and so forth. By various means
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Speaker 1: and ingenious instruments testing the fatigue point, the reactionary period, etc.
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Speaker 1: Professor Gates determined that a person is capable of greater muscular, intellectual,
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Speaker 1: and volitional activity under the influence of happy moods than
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Speaker 1: under the influence of depressing emotions. The system makes an
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Speaker 1: effort to eliminate the metabolic products of tissue waste, says professors,
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Speaker 1: and it is therefore not surprising that during acute grief,
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Speaker 1: tears are copiously excreted, that during sudden fear, the bowels
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Speaker 1: are moved and the kidneys are caused to act, and
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Speaker 1: that during prolonged fear the body is covered with a
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Speaker 1: cold perspiration, and that during anger the mouth tastes bitter
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Speaker 1: due largely to the increased elimination of sulphocyanates. The perspiration
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Speaker 1: of poisons takes in bodily economy, Professor Gates continues, now
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Speaker 1: of waste products is retarded by the sad and painful emotions,
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Speaker 1: nay worse than that these depressing emotions directly augment the
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Speaker 1: amount of these poisons. Conversely, the pleasurable and happy emotions
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Speaker 1: during the time they are active inhibit the poisonous effects
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Speaker 1: of the depressing moods and cause the bodily cells to
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Speaker 1: create and store up vital energy and nutritive tissue products.
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Speaker 1: Valuable ADA device may be deduced from these experiments. During
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Speaker 1: sadness and grief and increased effort should be volitionally made
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Speaker 1: to accelerate the respiration, perspiration, and kidney action so as
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Speaker 1: to excrete the poison more rapidly. Take your grief into
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Speaker 1: the open air, work till you perspire by bathing, wash
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Speaker 1: away the excreted eliminates of the skin several times daily,
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Speaker 1: and above all, use all the expedients known to you,
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Speaker 1: such as the drama, poetry, and the other fine arts,
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Speaker 1: and direct volitional derogation to reduce the happy and pleasurable emotions.
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Speaker 1: Whatever tends to produce, prolong or intensify the sad emotions
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Speaker 1: is wrong, whether it be dress, drama, or what not.
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Speaker 1: Happiness is a means rather than an end. It creates energy,
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Speaker 1: promotes growth and nutrition, and prolongs life. The emotions and
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Speaker 1: other feelings give us all there is of enjoyment in life,
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Speaker 1: and their scientific study in rational training constitute an important
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Speaker 1: step in the art of using the mind more skillfully
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Speaker 1: and efficiently. By proper time training, the depressing emotions can
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Speaker 1: be practically eliminated from life, and the good emotions rendered
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Speaker 1: permanently dormant. All this is extremely optimistic. Nursing grief month
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Speaker 1: after month or year after year, as so many do,
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Speaker 1: is a crime against oneself and against all others with
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Speaker 1: to anybody, least of all to the grieving person, who
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Speaker 1: certainly is no happier for it. The person dead or
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Speaker 1: gone away can take no pleasure in the perpetual mourning,
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Speaker 1: and everybody who lives with the mourner is depressed and
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Speaker 1: injured by the pall of lugubriousness. Such mourning is only
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Speaker 1: self pity, a form of selfishness. Pleasure and comfort from
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Speaker 1: a certain source may have gone out of your life,
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Speaker 1: but why not live in the joyous memory of what
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Speaker 1: was once enjoyed, rather than make yourself and many others
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Speaker 1: miserable because you cannot have a constant supply of this
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Speaker 1: same pleasure. What would you think of a tourist who
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Speaker 1: came back from Switzerland weeping and mourning because he could
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Speaker 1: not always remain in some beautiful valley and enjoy the
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Speaker 1: loveliest view he had ever seen. You expect his eye
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Speaker 1: to grow bright and his manner animated as he tells
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Speaker 1: of the beauty be saw and the pleasure he felt
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Speaker 1: in this connection, says Horace Fletcher. The suggestion should be
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Speaker 1: urged that separation, as in death, is unessential as compared
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Speaker 1: with the privilege of having known a beloved one, and
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Speaker 1: that appreciation and gratitude should always outweigh regret in relation
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Speaker 1: to an inevitable change. The attitude towards the separation called
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Speaker 1: death should be such as to induce the thought and
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Speaker 1: even the expression, pass on, beloved, enter into the better
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Speaker 1: state which all the processes of nature teach her the
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Speaker 1: result of every change. It will soon be my time
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Speaker 1: to follow my happiness at your preferment. Attend you. My
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Speaker 1: love is blessed with that happiness, and what you have
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Speaker 1: been to me remains and will remain forever. Anger has
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Speaker 1: many forms and many causes, but as Horace Fletcher has shown,
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Speaker 1: it has its root and fear. One is angry because
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Speaker 1: one fears bodily harm or injury to material interests, or
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Speaker 1: deprivation of some enjoyed blessing, or injury to reputation or
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Speaker 1: friendship through something that someone has said or done. The
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Speaker 1: self confident, fearless composed person does not get angry, though
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Speaker 1: suffering all the trials and vexations that make another person
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Speaker 1: fly all to pieces a dozen times a day. That
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Speaker 1: common expression, by the way, exactly describes the effect of anger.
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Speaker 1: One's mental and physical harmony does fly all to pieces
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Speaker 1: and is a long time getting patched up again. Self
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Speaker 1: control is, of course, the preventive of anger. Logic and
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Speaker 1: deliberation in judging of incidents and their effect on one
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Speaker 1: are conducive to self control. A common excitan to anger
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Speaker 1: is an epithet, the calling of a name. Think just
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Speaker 1: what this is, and you must decide that it is
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Speaker 1: silly to lose one's temper over it. You are angry,
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Speaker 1: really because you are afraid somebody may believe the characterization
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Speaker 1: is true. Were you absolutely sure of yourself and your reputation,
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Speaker 1: the epithet would have no more effect than the barking
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Speaker 1: of a dog or a word in some foreign language
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Speaker 1: that you did not understand. It has no real effect
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Speaker 1: at all, only what you allow it to have in
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Speaker 1: your own mind. It does not alter the facts in
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Speaker 1: the case. In the least. The wise attitude is that
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Speaker 1: taken by Mirabeau, who, when speaking at Marseille's, was called columniator, liar, assassin, scoundrel.
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Speaker 1: He said, I wait, gentlemen, till these amenities be exhausted.
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Speaker 1: Anger because some one has done work wrong does not
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Speaker 1: make the erring one not less likely to repeat the
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Speaker 1: error than what a careful showing of what is wrong
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Speaker 1: and the proper method your own energy could be far
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Speaker 1: more profitably spent than in a fit of temper. Whatever
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Speaker 1: the cause of anger, it will usually be found to
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Speaker 1: be trivial. A proof is that quick tempered people are
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Speaker 1: always apologizing the next day when the matter looks very different.
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Speaker 1: Cultivate the habit of forming this tomorrow judgment today, and
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Speaker 1: your angry explosions will be reduced to a minimum. Cultivate
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Speaker 1: optimism in general, and particularly the love thought toward all
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Speaker 1: people with whom you come in contact, and you will
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Speaker 1: soon find it hard to be angry with any of them.
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Speaker 1: Jealousy and hatred will disappear by the cultivation of the
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Speaker 1: same attitude of mind. Whatever the killing emotion that you
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Speaker 1: are allowing to destroy your happiness and shorten your life,
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Speaker 1: the remedy can be found within yourself, in your own
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Speaker 1: thinking and acting. Long ago at Pictetus, practice the remedy,
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Speaker 1: and said reckon the days in which you have not
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Speaker 1: been angry. I used to be angry every day. Now
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Speaker 1: every third day, then every third and fourth day, And
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Speaker 1: if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer
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Speaker 1: a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God. Chapter seven. Mastering our moods.
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Speaker 1: A character is a man who knows what he wants,
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Speaker 1: who does not allow his temper and moods to govern him,
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Speaker 1: but acts on firm principles true. When things go hard
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Speaker 1: with you, when everything seems to go against you, when
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Speaker 1: you are thwarted on every side, when the sky is
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Speaker 1: dark and you can see no light, that is just
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Speaker 1: the time to exhibit your metal, to show of what
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Speaker 1: stuff you are made. If there is anything in you,
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Speaker 1: adversity will bring it out. What a man does in
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Speaker 1: spite of circumstances, rather than because of them, is the
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Speaker 1: measure of his successibility. When you get up in the
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Speaker 1: morning feeling blue and discouraged because disagreeable things confront you,
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Speaker 1: make up your mind firmly that come what may, you
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Speaker 1: will make that particular day a red letter day in
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Speaker 1: your life. Then, instead of a probable failure and the
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Speaker 1: loss of a day, you will at least accomplish infinitely
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Speaker 1: more than you would have done if you had given
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Speaker 1: way to your depressing mood. Man is naturally a lazy animal,
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Speaker 1: and when things go hard with him, the temptation to
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Speaker 1: slip over or get around the difficult place is very strong.
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Speaker 1: But this is not the way to kill the dragon
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Speaker 1: that dogs your footsteps and robs you of your happyesiness.
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Speaker 1: Do not shake off or a voyager work. Do not
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Speaker 1: go around obstacles, go through them. Seize the dragon by
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Speaker 1: the head and strangle him. Above all, says Frank C. Haddock,
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Speaker 1: in the power of will, anger, irritation, jealousy, depression, sour feelings,
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Speaker 1: morose thoughts, worry should be forever banished from the mind
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Speaker 1: by the resolute, masterful will. All these are physiological devils.
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Speaker 1: They not only disturb the mind, but also injure the
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Speaker 1: body by developing poisonous and distorting cells. They prevent an
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Speaker 1: even circulation. The poisons which they generate are deadly in
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Speaker 1: the extreme. They flatten and tear asunder cells of nervous tissue.
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Speaker 1: They induce permanent physiological states which are inimical to vigorous will.
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Speaker 1: They dispel hopefulness and obscure high motives and lower the
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Speaker 1: mental tone. They should be cast out of life, with
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Speaker 1: the resolution that as aliens they shall always be treated.
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Speaker 1: They may be throttled and slaughtered and locked absolutely out
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Speaker 1: of your existence. Whoever will accomplish these great results will
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Speaker 1: discover a growth of will adequate to every normal demand.
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Speaker 1: If you are morose, moody, or despondent. If you have
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Speaker 1: the habit of worrying or fretting about things, or any
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Speaker 1: other fault that hinders your growth, you will never rid
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Speaker 1: yourself of it by brooding over it. Nothing is more
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Speaker 1: certain than that nursing such feelings aggravates them. But if
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Speaker 1: the sufferer will try to change the current of his
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Speaker 1: thought by calling up some happy memory, looking on some
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Speaker 1: beautiful object in art or in nature, reading from some helpful,
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Speaker 1: uplifting book, the blues will soon vanish. Sunshine will take
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Speaker 1: the place of gloom and joy of sadness. As Missus
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Speaker 1: Wiggs says, the way to get cheerful is to smile
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Speaker 1: when you feel bad, to think about somebody else's headache
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Speaker 1: when your own is most bustin To keep on believing
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Speaker 1: the sun is a shinin' when the clouds is thick
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Speaker 1: enough to cut. One of the brightest, most cheerful women
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Speaker 1: I ever knew told me that she was prone to
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Speaker 1: fits of depression or the blues, but that she learned
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Speaker 1: to conquer them by forcing herself to sing a bright,
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Speaker 1: joyous song or to play a lively air on the
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Speaker 1: piano whenever she felt an attack coming on the expelling
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Speaker 1: power of a contrary emotion is practically perfect if the
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Speaker 1: new thought be stronger than the old. The only cure
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Speaker 1: for indolence is work, says Rutherford. The only cure for
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Speaker 1: selfishness is sacrifice. The only cure for unbelief is to
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Speaker 1: shake off the aide of doubt by doing Christ's bidding.
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Speaker 1: The only cure for timidity is to plunge into some
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Speaker 1: dreadful duty before the chill comes on. Similarly, the cure
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Speaker 1: for bad moods is to summon good ones to fill
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Speaker 1: one's whole mind and thought. It requires a strong effort
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Speaker 1: of will, But the only way to conquer any fault
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Speaker 1: is to think persistently of the opposite virtue and to
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Speaker 1: practice it until it is yours by the force of habit.
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Speaker 1: Hold just the opposite thought from that which depresses you,
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Speaker 1: and you will naturally reverse the mood. The imagination has
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Speaker 1: great power to change an unpleasant thought or experience. When
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Speaker 1: you are the victim of vicious moods, just say to yourself,
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Speaker 1: this is all unreal. It has nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: my higher and better self, For the Creator never intended
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Speaker 1: me to be dominated by such dark pictures. Persistently recall
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Speaker 1: the most delightful experiences, the happiest days of your life.
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Speaker 1: Hold persistently in the mind such things as you have enjoyed.
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Speaker 1: Drive out the failure thoughts by thinking of the successful
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Speaker 1: things you have accomplished. Persistently hold joyous thoughts. When sadness threatens,
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Speaker 1: call hope to your aid and picture upright successful future.
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Speaker 1: Surround yourself with such happy thoughts for a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: and you will be surprised to see how all the
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Speaker 1: ghosts of blackness and gloom, all thoughts which have worried
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Speaker 1: and haunted you, have gone out of sight. They cannot
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Speaker 1: bear the light. Light, joy, gladness, and harmony are your
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Speaker 1: best protectors. Discord, darkness, and sickness cannot exist where they are.
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Speaker 1: As a writer in the Magazine of Mysteries says, our
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Speaker 1: troubles can stand anything better than indifference and ridicule. When
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Speaker 1: we separate ourselves from them and forget them for things
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Speaker 1: of greater interest, or when in our own minds we
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Speaker 1: turn their insignificance to derision, they speedily slink away, abashed,
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Speaker 1: and hide their diminished heads. Until we can master our moods,
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Speaker 1: we can never do our best work. No man who
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Speaker 1: is at the mercy of his moods is a free man.
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Speaker 1: He only is free who can rise to his dominion
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Speaker 1: in spite of his mental enemies. If a man must
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Speaker 1: consult his moods every morning to see whether he can
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Speaker 1: do his best work or only some unimportant task during
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Speaker 1: the day, if he must look at his mental thermometer
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Speaker 1: when he rises to whether his courage is rising or falling,
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Speaker 1: he is a slave. He cannot be successful or happy.
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Speaker 1: How different is the outlook of the man who feels
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Speaker 1: confident every morning that he is going to do a
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Speaker 1: man's work the very best that he is capable of,
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Speaker 1: and that no mood or outla word circumstance can hinder
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Speaker 1: that accomplishment. How superbly he carries himself, who has no fear,
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Speaker 1: no doubt, no anxiety. It is true that this supreme
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Speaker 1: self dominion, which marks one calm, powerful soul in a
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Speaker 1: million who fret and stew and are mastered by their moods,
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Speaker 1: is one of the last lessons of culture. But it
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Speaker 1: is a prerequisite to great achievement, and by proper effort
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Speaker 1: it is possible to all. When this is attained, we
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Speaker 1: need no longer envy those serene souls who impress us
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Speaker 1: with a sense of power, of calm, on hesitating assurance,
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Speaker 1: who travel toward their goal with the rhythm and majesty
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Speaker 1: of the celestial bodies. They are only those who have
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Speaker 1: learned to think correctly, to master their moods, and with
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Speaker 1: them men in circumstances, And we can be like them
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Speaker 1: if we will. Training under pressure is the finest discipline
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Speaker 1: in the world. You know what is right and what
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Speaker 1: you ought to do, even when you do not feel
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Speaker 1: like doing it. This is the time to get a
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Speaker 1: firm grip on yourself, to hold yourself steadily to your task,
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Speaker 1: no matter how hard or disagreeable it may be. Keep
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Speaker 1: up this rigid discipline day after day and week after week,
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Speaker 1: and you will soon learn the art of arts, perfect
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Speaker 1: self mastery Chapter eight and profitable pessimism. The universe pays
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Speaker 1: every man in his own coin. If you smile, it
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Speaker 1: smiles upon you in return. If you frown, you will
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Speaker 1: be frowned at. If you sing, you will be invited
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Speaker 1: into gay company. If you think, you will be entertained
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Speaker 1: by thinkers. If you love the world and earnestly seek
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Speaker 1: for the good therein, you will be surrounded by loving friends,
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Speaker 1: and nature will pour into your lap the treasures of
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Speaker 1: the earth. Zimmermann, considering how unprofitable such efforts are, it
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Speaker 1: is surprising how many people make a business of looking
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Speaker 1: for trouble, of cultivating and coaxing it, and running to
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Speaker 1: meet it. They find the thing they look for. No
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Speaker 1: one ever looked for trouble yet without finding plenty of it.
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Speaker 1: This is because one can make trouble of anything if
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Speaker 1: the mind is set that way. It is said that
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Speaker 1: during the development of the West, in the days of
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Speaker 1: rough frontier life, the men who always went armed with pistols, revolvers,
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Speaker 1: and bowie knives always got into difficulties, while the men
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Speaker 1: who never carried arms but trusted to their own good sense,
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Speaker 1: self control, tact, and humor rarely had trouble. The incident
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Speaker 1: that meant a shooting a fray to the armed man
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Speaker 1: was merely a joke to the more sensible, unarmed men.
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Speaker 1: It is just so with the seekers for ordinary trouble.
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Speaker 1: By constantly holding discouraged, dejected, melancholy, gloomy thoughts, they make
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Speaker 1: themselves receptive to all that depresses and destroys what to
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Speaker 1: a cheerful person would be a trifling incident to be
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Speaker 1: laughed at and dismissed from the mind, becomes in the
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Speaker 1: minds of the croakers a thing of dire portent, an
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Speaker 1: occasion for unutterable gloom and foreboding. Most unhappy people have
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Speaker 1: gradually become so by forming the habit of unhappiness, complaining
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Speaker 1: about the weather, finding fault with their food, with crowded cars,
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Speaker 1: and with disagreeable companions or work. The habit of complaining,
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Speaker 1: of criticizing, of fault finding, or grumbling over trifles. The
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Speaker 1: habit of looking for shadows is one most unfortunate to contract,
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Speaker 1: especially in early life, for after a while the victim
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Speaker 1: becomes a slave. All of the impulses become perverted, until
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Speaker 1: the tendency to pessimism to cynicism is chronic. There are
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Speaker 1: specialists in these troubled seekers. Thousands of people go looking
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Speaker 1: for disease. They keep on hand antidotes for malaria and
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Speaker 1: something for colds, and medicine for every possible ailment, and
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Speaker 1: they are sure they will all come sometime. When they
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Speaker 1: take a journey across the continent or to Europe, they
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Speaker 1: carry a regular drug store with them, a remedy for
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Speaker 1: every supposed ill that they are likely to strike and
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Speaker 1: strange to say. These people are always feeling ill. They
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Speaker 1: are always having colds and catching contagious diseases. Others who
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Speaker 1: never anticipate trouble, who are always believing the best instead
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Speaker 1: of the worst, will go abroad and never take remedies
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Speaker 1: with them, and they rarely have any trouble. Some people
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Speaker 1: are always looking for malaria. They are always snuffing about
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Speaker 1: for sewer gas and for impure air. The locality where
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Speaker 1: they live must be unhealthy, too high or too low,
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Speaker 1: too sunny or too shady. If they have any little
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Speaker 1: ache or pain, they are sure it is malaria. Of course,
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Speaker 1: they eventually get it because they looked for it, they
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Speaker 1: anticipated it, they expected it. They would be disappointed if
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Speaker 1: they found they were mistaken. The fact is that the
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Speaker 1: only thing that is wrong is their own minds. If
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Speaker 1: there is malaria in the mind, if there is miasma
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Speaker 1: in the thought, these things will appear in the body.
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Speaker 1: It is only a question of time. Some of these
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Speaker 1: trouble seekers fix on the stomach as the storm center
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Speaker 1: of misfortune. They have elaborate mental charts of what agrees
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Speaker 1: with them and what disagrees with them, and are always
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Speaker 1: secretly hoping to be able to find some new indigestible viyan.
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Speaker 1: They swallow a bit of dyspepsia with every mouthful of food,
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Speaker 1: for they feel sure that everything they eat will hurt them.
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Speaker 1: The suspicious thought, the fear thought, reacts upon the digestion,
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Speaker 1: demoralizes the gastric juice or prevents its secretion entirely, and
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Speaker 1: of course there is trouble. Some of these peculiar individuals
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Speaker 1: find the air the most prolific source of their quarry.
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Speaker 1: The whole French nation is continually looking for trouble from
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Speaker 1: this source. An American in Paris who leaves a bedroom
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Speaker 1: window open is warned against sore eyes, pneumonia, colds, and
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Speaker 1: sudden death. If there is a window open anywhere, these
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Speaker 1: suspecters of aerial mischief expect a cold and are sure
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Speaker 1: to get it. The very fear, the very anxiety, demoralizes
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Speaker 1: the natural resisting power of the body and makes it susceptible.
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Speaker 1: If there is a contagious disease anywhere in the neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: the trouble expects are sure to contract it. If one
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Speaker 1: of the children coughs or has a little too much
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Speaker 1: color in the cheek, or does not feel hungry. They
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Speaker 1: are certain that the dreaded disease must have begun its
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Speaker 1: deadly work. The saddest cases of all, perhaps are those
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Speaker 1: who have a fixed idea that some disease, usually supposed
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Speaker 1: to be inherited, will ultimately kill them. The self convinced
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Speaker 1: victims of weak lungs, weak hearts, weak stomachs, brood and
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Speaker 1: dwell upon their threatened physical disasters, making them enter into
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Speaker 1: every plan and calculation of life, throwing their pull over
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Speaker 1: every activity of the family. All that thousands of such
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Speaker 1: people need to be well and happy is a better
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Speaker 1: mental state, a buoyant, hopeful attitude, and the activity that
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Speaker 1: would come with such a philosophy. These people are the
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Speaker 1: prey of quacks of every kind. They are the dope
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Speaker 1: fiends that swallow our millions of gallons of concoctions, whose
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Speaker 1: advertisements discussed the eye of every newspaper reader. They support
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Speaker 1: many a fashionable physician in luxury. They make life tenfold
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Speaker 1: more miserable than by any standard of right it ought
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Speaker 1: to be. I wish that I had the power to
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Speaker 1: stir the inmost soul of all these people to realize
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Speaker 1: how much their own fate lies in the control of
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Speaker 1: their own thoughts, how effort of will, by helping them
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Speaker 1: to hold the healing, life giving thought, might enable them
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Speaker 1: to throw off every hampering ailment, physical and mental, and
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Speaker 1: make their lives the grand expression of the divinity that
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Speaker 1: is the essence of us. All certain people are always
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Speaker 1: complaining of their hard lot and poverty. They go about
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Speaker 1: with disaster written in their very faces. They are walking
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Speaker 1: advertisements of their own failures, their own listless, nerveless, lifeless inactivity.
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Speaker 1: They are always talking, but never doing. I know a bright,
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Speaker 1: energetic young man who has started in business for himself,
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Speaker 1: but who has formed a most unfortunate habit of talking
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Speaker 1: down his business to everybody. When anybody asks him how
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Speaker 1: his business is getting along, he says, poorly, poorly, no business,
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Speaker 1: doing absolutely nothing, just barely making a living, no money
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Speaker 1: in it. I wish I could sell out. I made
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Speaker 1: a great mistake in going into this line of business.
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Speaker 1: I would have been a great deal better off on salary.
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Speaker 1: This man has formed such a habit of talking his
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Speaker 1: business down that even when business is good, he still
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Speaker 1: calls it poor. He radiates a discouraging atmosphere. He flings
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Speaker 1: out discouraging suggestions and makes you feel tired and disgusted
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Speaker 1: that a young man of such promise and such possibilities
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Speaker 1: should so drown his prospects and strangle his ambition. This
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Speaker 1: habit is especially unfortunate in an employer because it is contagious.
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Speaker 1: It destroys the confidence of the employees in him and
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Speaker 1: in the business. People do not like to work for
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Speaker 1: a pessimist. They thrive in a cheerful, optimistic atmosphere and
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Speaker 1: will do more and better work there than in one
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Speaker 1: of discouragement and depression. The man who talks his business
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Speaker 1: down cannot possibly do so well as the man who
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Speaker 1: talks his business up. The habit of talking everything down
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Speaker 1: sets the mind toward the negative side, the destructive side,
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Speaker 1: instead of toward the positive and creative, and is fatal
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Speaker 1: to achievement. It creates a discordant invie ironment. No man
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Speaker 1: can live upward when he is talking downward. The imagination,
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Speaker 1: wrongly used is one of our worst foes. I know
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Speaker 1: people who live in perpetual unhappiness and discomfort because they
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Speaker 1: imagine they are being abused, slighted, neglected, and talked about.
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Speaker 1: They think themselves the target for all sorts of evils,
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Speaker 1: the object of envy, jealousy, and all kinds of ill will.
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Speaker 1: The fact is most such ideas are delusions and have
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Speaker 1: no reality whatever. Now this is a most unfortunate state
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Speaker 1: of mind to get into. It kills happiness, It demoralizes usefulness,
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Speaker 1: It throws the mind out of harmony, and life itself
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Speaker 1: becomes unsatisfactory. People who think such thoughts make themselves perpetually
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Speaker 1: wretched by surrounding themselves with an atmosphere reeking with pessimism.
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Speaker 1: They always wear black glasses, which make everything around them
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Speaker 1: seem draped in mourning. They see nothing but black, all
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Speaker 1: the music of their lives set to the minor key.
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Speaker 1: There is nothing cheerful or bright in their world. These
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Speaker 1: people have talked poverty, failure, hard luck, fate, and hard
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Speaker 1: times so long that their entire being is imbued with pessimism.
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Speaker 1: The cheerful qualities of the mind have atrophied from neglect
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Speaker 1: and disuse, while their pessimistic tendencies have been so overdeveloped
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Speaker 1: that their minds cannot regain a normal, healthy, cheerful balance.
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Speaker 1: These people carry a gloomy, disagreeable, uncomfortable influence with them
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Speaker 1: Wherever they go, nobody likes to converse with them because
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Speaker 1: they are always telling their stories of hard luck and
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Speaker 1: misfortune with them. Times are always hard, money scarce, and
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Speaker 1: society going to the bad. After a while, they become
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Speaker 1: pessimistic cranks with morbid minds really partially unbalanced, and people
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Speaker 1: avoid them as they would miasmatic swamps full of chills
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Speaker 1: and fever. Sometimes a whole household becomes infected by the
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Speaker 1: presence of one morose, discontented member, and and its peace
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Speaker 1: is ruined. Such a contrary person is always out of
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Speaker 1: harmony with his environment, has no pleasure himself, and as
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Speaker 1: far as he is able, prevents others from having any.
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Speaker 1: Such states of mind not only induce disease but also
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Speaker 1: prevent benefit from ordinary curative processes. George C. Tenney, from
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Speaker 1: experience in a sanatorium writes, to help a person who
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Speaker 1: is at outs with everything and everybody is like trying
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Speaker 1: to save a drowning man who is determined to drown.
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Speaker 1: Some people spend most of their time in hunting themselves
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Speaker 1: over for some new ailment, and when they have found it,
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Speaker 1: they are the most happy that they ever are. Immediately
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Speaker 1: they hang it about their necks, where it becomes an
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Speaker 1: additional millstone to drag them down. Nothing does so much
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Speaker 1: to obstruct the work of restoring normal conditions as for
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Speaker 1: the individual to wage continual war with his situation and surroundings.
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Speaker 1: Giving medicine or treatment to a person whose mind is
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Speaker 1: in the turmoil of discontent is like pouring water into
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Speaker 1: heated oil. Irritation and disturbance is the consequence. Healing is
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Speaker 1: the work of divine power, and in the use of
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Speaker 1: divinely appointed means for the recovery of health, it is
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Speaker 1: as necessary to be in harmony with the application of
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Speaker 1: those means, as though the divine Master were himself applying
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Speaker 1: the means. A good and wise providence is seeking to
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Speaker 1: work out for us a noble end, and contentment means
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Speaker 1: being in harmony with the work that is being done
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Speaker 1: for us. Whether that work be agreeable to our feelings
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Speaker 1: or not. It matters not what may be the cause
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Speaker 1: of the trouble in the anxious mind, says doctor J. Sanderson,
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Speaker 1: The results upon the body are the same. Every function
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Speaker 1: is weakened, and under the continual influence of a depressed
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Speaker 1: state of mind, they degenerate. Especially is this true if
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Speaker 1: any organ of the body is handicapped by weakness from
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Speaker 1: any other cause. The combination of the two influences will
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Speaker 1: soon lead to actual disease. The greatest barrier in the
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Speaker 1: way of the healing process, especially if the malady be
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Speaker 1: one that is accompanied by severe pain, is the mental
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Speaker 1: depression that is associated with it and often becomes a
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Speaker 1: factor of the disease. It stands in the way of recovery,
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Speaker 1: sometimes more than do the physical causes, and obliterates from
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Speaker 1: the consciousness of the individual the wonderful healing power of
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Speaker 1: nature so essential to recovery. A most injurious and unpleasant
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Speaker 1: way of looking for trouble is fault finding continual criticism
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Speaker 1: of other persons. Some people are never generous, never magnanimous
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Speaker 1: toward others. They are stingy of their praise, showing always
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Speaker 1: an unhealthy parsimony in their recognition of merit in others,
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Speaker 1: and critical of their every act. Don't go through life
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Speaker 1: looking for trouble, for faults, for failures, for the crooked,
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Speaker 1: the ugly, and the deformed. Don't see the distorted man,
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Speaker 1: see the man that God made. Just make up your
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Speaker 1: mind firmly at the very outset in life that you
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Speaker 1: will not criticize or condemn others or find fault with
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Speaker 1: their mistakes and shortcomings. Fault finding, indulging in sarcasm and irony,
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Speaker 1: picking flaws in everything and everybody. Looking for things to
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Speaker 1: condemn instead of to praise is a very dangerous habit
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Speaker 1: to one's self. It is like a deadly worm which
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Speaker 1: gnaws at the heart of the rose, bud or fruit,
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Speaker 1: and will make your own life gnarled, distorted, and bitter.
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Speaker 1: No life can be harmonious and happy after this blighting
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Speaker 1: habit is once formed. Those who always look for something
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Speaker 1: to condemn ruin their own characters and destroy their normal integrity.
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Speaker 1: We all like sunshiny, bright, cheerful, hopeful people. Nobody likes
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Speaker 1: the grumbler, the fault finder, the backbiter, the slanderer. The
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Speaker 1: world likes Emerson, not Nordau likes the man who sees
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Speaker 1: longevity in his cause and good in the future, who
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Speaker 1: believes the best and not the worst of people. Idle gossipers,
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Speaker 1: serpent tongues. People who give vent to their tempers get
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Speaker 1: only momentary satisfaction, and ever afterward they are tormented by
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Speaker 1: their own ugly natures, and then wonder why another person
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Speaker 1: enjoys his life, and they do not enjoy theirs. It
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Speaker 1: is just as easy to go through life looking for
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Speaker 1: the good and the beautiful instead of the ugly, for
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Speaker 1: the noble instead of the ignoble, For the bright and
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Speaker 1: cheerful instead of the dark and gloomy, the hopeful, instead
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Speaker 1: of the despairing. To see the bright side instead of
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Speaker 1: the dark side. To set your face always toward the
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Speaker 1: sunlight is just as easy as to see always the shadows,
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Speaker 1: and it makes all the difference in your character between
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Speaker 1: content and discontent, between happiness and misery, and in your
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Speaker 1: life between prosperity and adversity, between success and failure. Learn
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Speaker 1: to look for the light, then positively refuse to harbour
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Speaker 1: shadows and blots and the deformed, the disfigured, the discordant.
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Speaker 1: Hold to those things that give pleasure, that are helpful
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Speaker 1: and inspiring, and you will change your whole way of
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Speaker 1: looking at things, will transform your character in a very
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Speaker 1: short time. A great many people think they would be
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Speaker 1: happy if they were only in different circumstances, when the
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Speaker 1: fact is that circumstances have little, if anything to do
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Speaker 1: with one's temperament or disas position to enjoy the world.
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Speaker 1: I know people who have lost their best friends, who
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Speaker 1: have all their lives been apparently unfortunate, have struggled against odds,
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Speaker 1: and have themselves been invalids, and yet they have borne
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Speaker 1: up bravely through it all and have been cheerful, hopeful,
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Speaker 1: inspiring to all who knew them. You who are always unhappy,
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Speaker 1: who are always grumbling about your circumstances, hard luck, and poverty,
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Speaker 1: must remember that thousands of people would be happy and
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Speaker 1: precisely your condition if you have been in the habit
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Speaker 1: of talking down your business, the times, your friends, and everything.
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Speaker 1: Just reverse the process. Talk everything up and see how
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Speaker 1: soon your changed thought will change the atmosphere about you
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Speaker 1: and improve your conditions. A strong positive man does not
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Speaker 1: allow himself to talk and think negatives. He does not
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Speaker 1: say I can't, it is always I can. He does
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Speaker 1: not say I will try the thing, but I will
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Speaker 1: do it. Kants have ruined more boys and young men
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Speaker 1: and young women than almost anything else for to get
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Speaker 1: into the negative habit. The doubting habit tends to keep
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Speaker 1: them down. They are fastening bonds of servitude around themselves
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Speaker 1: and will not be able to counteract their influence unless
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Speaker 1: they reverse their thinking, talking, and acting. Perfect faith is
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Speaker 1: the child of optimism and harmony. The pessimist atmosphere is
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Speaker 1: always deadly to health and fatal to business as well
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Speaker 1: as morals. The balanced soul is never suspicious, does not
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Speaker 1: expect trouble, but quite the reverse. He knows that health
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Speaker 1: and harmony are the everlasting facts that disease and discord
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Speaker 1: are but the absence of the opposites, as darkness is
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Speaker 1: not an entity in itself, only the absence of light.
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Speaker 1: Get yourself in balance, and life will look and be
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Speaker 1: different to you. Brooding o'or ills, The irritable soul creates
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Speaker 1: the evils feared and hugs its pain. See thou some
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Speaker 1: good in every somber hole, and viewing excellence, forget life's
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Speaker 1: dull in will the last sweet drop of joy to drain.
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Speaker 1: Chapter nine. The power of cheerful thinking optimism is the
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Speaker 1: faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope.
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Speaker 1: Helen Keller. The men whom I have seen succeed best
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Speaker 1: in life have always been cheerful and hopeful, men who
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Speaker 1: went about their business with a smile on their faces,
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Speaker 1: and took the changes and chances of this mortal life
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Speaker 1: like men facing rough and smooth, alike as it came
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Speaker 1: Charles Kingsley. The cheerful man has a creative power which
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Speaker 1: the pessimist never possesses. There is nothing which will so
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Speaker 1: completely sweeten life and take out its drudgery, nothing that
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Speaker 1: will so effectively ease the jolts on the road as
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Speaker 1: a sunny, hopeful, optimistic disposition with the same mental ability,
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Speaker 1: the cheerful thinker has infinitely more power than the despondent,
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Speaker 1: gloomy thinker. Cheerfulness is a perpetual lubricator of the mind.
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Speaker 1: It is the oil of gladness which dispels friction, worries, anxieties,
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Speaker 1: and dias disagreeable experiences. The life machinery of a cheerful
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Speaker 1: man does not wear out or grind away as rapidly
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Speaker 1: as that of one whose moods and temper scour and
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Speaker 1: where the delicate bearings and throw the entire machinery out
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Speaker 1: of harmony. In the maintenance of health and the cure
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Speaker 1: of disease, cheerfulness is a most important factor, says doctor A. J. Sanderson.
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Speaker 1: Its power to do good, like a medicine, is not
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Speaker 1: an artificial stimulation of the tissues to be followed by
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Speaker 1: reaction and greater waste, as is the case with many drugs.
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Speaker 1: But the effect of cheerfulness is an actual life giving
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Speaker 1: influence through a normal channel, the results of which reach
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Speaker 1: every part of the system. It brightens, the eye makes ruddy.
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Speaker 1: The countenance brings elasticity to the step and promotes all
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Speaker 1: the inner forces by which life is sustained. The blood
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Speaker 1: circulates more freely, the oxygen comes to its home in
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Speaker 1: the tissues. Health is promoted and disease is banished. A
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Speaker 1: farmer in Alabama, eight or ten years ago, subject to
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Speaker 1: lung trouble, had a hemorrhage while plased llowing one day,
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Speaker 1: and lost so much blood that he was told by
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Speaker 1: his physician that he would die. He merely said that
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Speaker 1: he was not ready to die yet, and lingered for
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Speaker 1: a long time, unable to get up. He gained strength
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Speaker 1: and finally could sit up, and then he began to
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Speaker 1: laugh at anything in everything. He persisted in his hilarity
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Speaker 1: even when while people could see nothing to laugh at,
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Speaker 1: and gained constantly. He became robust and strong. He says
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Speaker 1: he is sure that if he had not laughed continually,
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Speaker 1: he would have died A great many people have brought sick,
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Speaker 1: discordant bodies back into harmony by the laugh cure, by
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Speaker 1: substituting cheerfulness for fretting, worrying, and complaining. Every time one
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Speaker 1: complains or finds fault, he is only acknowledging the power
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Speaker 1: of his enemies to hold him down, to make his
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Speaker 1: life uncomfortable and disagreeable. The way to get rid of
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Speaker 1: these enemies of happiness is to deny their existence, to
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Speaker 1: drive them out of the mind, For they are only delusions. Harmony, health, beauty, success.
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Speaker 1: These are the realities. Their opposites are only the absence
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Speaker 1: of the real I try, as much as I can
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Speaker 1: set a great philosopher, to let nothing distress me, and
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Speaker 1: to take everything that happens as for the best. I
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Speaker 1: believe that this is a duty, and that we sin
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Speaker 1: in not so doing. Similarly, Sir John Lubbock has said,
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Speaker 1: I cannot, however, but think that the world would be
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Speaker 1: better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the
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Speaker 1: duty and happiness as well as on the happiness and duty.
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Speaker 1: For we ought to be as cheerful as we can,
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Speaker 1: if only because to be happy ourselves is the most
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Speaker 1: effectual contribution to the happiness of others. Nothing makes for
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Speaker 1: one's own health and happiness so much as a serene mind.
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Speaker 1: When the mind is self poised and serene, every faculty
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Speaker 1: and function falls into line and works normally. There is
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Speaker 1: equilibrium and health everywhere in the body. The serene mind
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Speaker 1: can accomplish infinitely more than the disturbed and discordant. A
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Speaker 1: serene intentness will always prevail, though bluster and bustle will
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Speaker 1: often fail. The work turned out by a calm, balanced
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Speaker 1: mind is healthy and strong. There is a vigor and
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Speaker 1: naturalness about it which is not found in that done
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Speaker 1: by a one sided man, a mind out of balance.
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Speaker 1: Serenity never dwells with discontent, with anxiety, with over ambition.
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Speaker 1: It never lives with the guilty, but dwells only with
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Speaker 1: a clear conscience. It is never found apart from honesty
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Speaker 1: and square dealing, or with the idle or the vicious.
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Speaker 1: The sunny man attracts business success. Everybody likes to deal
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Speaker 1: with agreeable, cheerful people. We instinctively shrink from a crabbed
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Speaker 1: cross contemptible character, no matter how able he may be.
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Speaker 1: We would rather do a little less business or pay
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Speaker 1: a little more for our goods and deal with an optimist.
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Speaker 1: The great business world of to day is too serious,
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Speaker 1: too dead in earnest. Life in America is the most
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Speaker 1: strenuous ever experienced in the history of the world. There
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Speaker 1: is a perpetual need of relief from this great tension,
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Speaker 1: and a sunny, cheerful, gracious soul is like an ocean
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Speaker 1: breeze in sultry August, like the coming of a vacation.
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Speaker 1: We welcome it because it gives us at least temporary
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Speaker 1: relief from the strenuous strain. Country store keepers look forward
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Speaker 1: for months to the visits of jolly, breezy traveling men
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Speaker 1: and their wholesale houses profit by their good nature. Cheerful faced,
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Speaker 1: and pleasant voiced clerks can sell more goods and attract
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Speaker 1: more customers than saucy, snappy, disagreeable ones. Promoters organizers of
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Speaker 1: great enterprises must make a business of being agreeable, of
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Speaker 1: harmonizing hostile interests, of winning men's good opinion. Newspaper men likewise,
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Speaker 1: depend on making friends to gain entree, to get interviews,
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Speaker 1: to discover facts, and to find news. All doors fly
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Speaker 1: open to the sunny man, and he is invited to
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Speaker 1: enter when the disagreeable, sarcastic, gloomy man has to break
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Speaker 1: open the door to force his way. In many another
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Speaker 1: business is founded on courtesy, cheerfulness, and good humor. Employees
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Speaker 1: can often make their situations easier, get more salary, and
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Speaker 1: win promotion by always being cheerful and bright, besides having
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Speaker 1: a pleasant, happy time themselves. Emory Bell tells how this
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Speaker 1: worked in her own case. I started out to my
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Speaker 1: work one morning, determined to try the power of cheerful thinking.
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Speaker 1: I had been moody long enough, I said to myself.
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Speaker 1: I have often observed that a happy state of mind
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Speaker 1: has a wonderful effect upon my physical make up. So
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Speaker 1: I will try its effect upon others and see if
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Speaker 1: my right thinking can be brought to act upon them.
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Speaker 1: You see, I was curious as I walked along, more
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Speaker 1: and more resolved on my purpose and persisting that I
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Speaker 1: was happy that the world was treating me well. I
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Speaker 1: was surprised to find myself lifted up, as it were,
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Speaker 1: my carriage became more erect, my step lighter, and I
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Speaker 1: had the sensation of treading on air. Unconsciously, I was smiling,
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Speaker 1: for I caught myself in the act. Once or twice.
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Speaker 1: I looked into the faces of the women I passed,
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Speaker 1: and there saw so much trouble and anxiety, discontent even
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Speaker 1: to peevishness, that my heart went out to them, and
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Speaker 1: I wished I could impart to them a wee bit
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Speaker 1: of the sunshine I felt pervading me. Arriving at the office,
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Speaker 1: I greeted the book keeper with some passing remark that
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Speaker 1: for the life of me I could not have made
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Speaker 1: under different conditions, I am not naturally witty. It immediately
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Speaker 1: put us on a pleasant footing for the day. She
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Speaker 1: had caught the reflection. The president of the company I
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Speaker 1: was employed by was a very busy man, and much
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Speaker 1: worried over his affairs. And at some remark that he
1:29:36
Speaker 1: made about my work, I would ordinarily have felt quite hurt,
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Speaker 1: being too sensitive by nature and education. But this day
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Speaker 1: I had determined nothing should mar its brightness, so replied
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Speaker 1: to him cheerfully. His brow cleared, and there was another
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Speaker 1: pleasant footing established, And so throughout the day I went,
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Speaker 1: allowing no cloud to spoil its beauty for me or
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Speaker 1: others about me. At the kind home where I was staying,
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Speaker 1: the same course was pursued, and where before I had
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Speaker 1: felt estrangement and want of sympathy. I found congeniality and
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Speaker 1: warm friendship. People will meet you half way if you
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Speaker 1: will take the trouble to go that far. So, my sisters,
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Speaker 1: if you think the world is not treating you kindly,
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Speaker 1: don't delay a day, but say to yourselves, I am
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Speaker 1: going to keep young in spite of the gray hairs,
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Speaker 1: even if things do not always come my way. I
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Speaker 1: am going to live for others and shed sunshine across
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Speaker 1: the pathway of all I meet. You will find happiness
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Speaker 1: springing up like flowers around you, will never want for
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Speaker 1: friends or companionship, and above all, the peace of God
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Speaker 1: will rest upon your soul. The world is too full
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Speaker 1: of sadness and sorrow, misery and sickness. It needs more sunshine.
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Speaker 1: It needs cheerful lives which radiate gladness. It needs encouragers
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Speaker 1: who shall lift and not bear down, who shall encourage,
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Speaker 1: not discourage, who can estimate the value of the sunny
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Speaker 1: soul who scatters gladness and good cheer wherever he goes
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Speaker 1: instead of gloom and sadness. Everybody is attracted to these
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Speaker 1: cheerful faces and sunny lives, and repelled by the gloomy,
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Speaker 1: the morose, the sad, we envy. People who radiate cheer
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Speaker 1: wherever they go, who fling out gladness from every pore,
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Speaker 1: Money houses lands look contemptible beside such a disposition. The
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Speaker 1: ability to radiate sunshine is a greater power than beauty,
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Speaker 1: than mere mental accomplishments. Oh, what riches live in a
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Speaker 1: sunny soul? What a blessed heritage? Is a sunny nature
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Speaker 1: able to fling out sunshine wherever it goes, able to
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Speaker 1: scatter the shadows and to lighten sorrow laden hearts, having
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Speaker 1: power to send cheer into despairing souls, and if haply,
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Speaker 1: this heritage is combined with a superb manner and exquisite personality,
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Speaker 1: no money wealth can compare with its value. This blessing
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Speaker 1: is not difficult of acquisition. For a sunny face is
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Speaker 1: but a reflection of a warm, generous heart. The sunshine
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Speaker 1: does not appear first upon the face, but in the soul.
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Speaker 1: The glad smile that makes the face radiant is but
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Speaker 1: a glimpse of the soul's sunshine. By taking a large
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Speaker 1: hearted interest in every one we meet, by trying to
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Speaker 1: pierce through the mask of the outer man or woman
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Speaker 1: to the inmost core, and by cultivating kindly feelings toward all,
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Speaker 1: it is possible to acquire this inestimable gift. It is
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Speaker 1: really only the development of our own finest qualities that
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Speaker 1: enables us to understand and draw out what is fine
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Speaker 1: and noble in others. Nothing will pay one better than
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Speaker 1: the acquisition of the power to make others feel at ease, happy,
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Speaker 1: and satisfied with themselves. Sunny people dispel melancholy, gloom, worry,
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Speaker 1: an anxiety from all those with whom they come in contact,
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Speaker 1: just as the sun drives away darkness. When they enter
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Speaker 1: a room full of people where the conversation has been
1:32:49
Speaker 1: lagging and where everybody seems bored, they transform the surroundings
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Speaker 1: like the sun bursting through thick black clouds after a storm.
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Speaker 1: Everybody takes on a joyous spirit from the glad soul
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Speaker 1: just entered. Tongues are untied, conversation which drag becomes bright
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Speaker 1: and spirited, and the whole atmosphere vibrates with gladness and
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Speaker 1: good cheer. There is nothing which you could put into
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Speaker 1: your life accept service to others, which would pay you
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Speaker 1: so well as the cultivation of sunshine in your business
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Speaker 1: or profession, and in your social relations, business will come
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Speaker 1: to you instead of having to be sought. Friends will
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Speaker 1: seek you, Society open wide its doors to you. A
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Speaker 1: cheerful disposition is a fund of ready capital, a magnet
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Speaker 1: for the good things of life. Force yourself, if necessary,
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Speaker 1: to form the habit of seeing the best in people,
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Speaker 1: of finding out their good qualities and dwelling upon them
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Speaker 1: and enlarging them. Do not see the distorted, crooked, cramped
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Speaker 1: burlesque of a man, but the man that God made,
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Speaker 1: Ruskin says, do not think of your faults still less
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Speaker 1: of others faults in every person who comes near you.
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Speaker 1: Look for what is good and strong honor that rejoice
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Speaker 1: in it, and as you can, try to imitate it,
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Speaker 1: and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when
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Speaker 1: their time comes. If you make up your mind firmly
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Speaker 1: that you will never again speak unkindly of anyone, that
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Speaker 1: if you cannot find anything good in them, if you
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Speaker 1: cannot see the best side, you will see nothing and
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Speaker 1: say nothing. It will make a wonderful difference in life
1:34:20
Speaker 1: for you. You will be surprised to see how soon everything
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Speaker 1: will respond with a message of joy and peace. If
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Speaker 1: you always look on the sunny side of every incident.
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Speaker 1: You will find that there is really very little trouble
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Speaker 1: in the world for you, and even that little can
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Speaker 1: be turned to goodness. Your vinegary countenance and cynical remarks
1:34:38
Speaker 1: will be cast off as an ugly mask which has
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Speaker 1: been hiding your real, wholesome, happy self, and all the
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Speaker 1: blessings of human experience will be yours. Catch the sunshine,
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Speaker 1: don't he grieving o'er that dark sum billow. There life's
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Speaker 1: a sea of stormy billows. We must meet them everywhere,
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Speaker 1: Pass right through them. Do not tari overcome the heaving tide.
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Speaker 1: There's a sparkling gleam of sunshine waiting on the other side.
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Speaker 1: Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Speaker 1: No path is wholly rough. Look for the places that
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Speaker 1: are smooth and clear, and speak of them to rest
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Speaker 1: the weary ear of earth, so hurt by one continuous
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Speaker 1: strain of mortal discontent and grief and pain. Ellow Wheeler Wilcox,
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Speaker 1: Chapter ten. Negative creeds paralyze denials should be ignored entirely,
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Speaker 1: for they are but reminders of a condition we are
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Speaker 1: trying to erase from the memory, and by verbal expression
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Speaker 1: of any condition or fact. We form a mental image
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Speaker 1: thereof Agnes Proctor. Negatives never accomplish anything. There is no
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Speaker 1: life in a negative, nothing but deterioration, destruction, death. Negatives
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Speaker 1: are great enemies of the success candidate. The man who
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Speaker 1: is always talking down everything, who is always complaining of
1:36:00
Speaker 1: hard times and bad business, poor health, and poverty, attracts
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Speaker 1: to himself all the destructive negative influences about him and
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Speaker 1: neutralizes all of his endeavor. Constructive thought abandons the man
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Speaker 1: who is always thinking destructively and using destructive language, for
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Speaker 1: he has nothing kindred with the positive, nothing to attract it.
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Speaker 1: The creative principles cannot live in a negative, destructive atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: and no signal achievement can take place there. So negative
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Speaker 1: people are always on the downgrade, always turning out failures.
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Speaker 1: They lose the power of affirmation and drift unable to
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Speaker 1: get ahead. Negatives will paralyze your ambition, my young friend,
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Speaker 1: If you indulge in them, they will poison your life.
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Speaker 1: They will rob you of power, They will kill your
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Speaker 1: self confidence, until you are a victim of your situation
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Speaker 1: instead of a master of it. The power to do
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Speaker 1: is largely a question of self faith, self confidence. No
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Speaker 1: matter what you undertake, you will never do it until
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Speaker 1: you think you can. You will never master it until
1:37:05
Speaker 1: you first feel the mastery and do the deed in
1:37:07
Speaker 1: your mind. It must be thought out or it can
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Speaker 1: never be wrought out. It must be a mind accomplishment
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Speaker 1: before it can be a material one. There is no
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Speaker 1: science in the world which will bring a thing to
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Speaker 1: you while your thought repels it, while doubt and suspicion
1:37:22
Speaker 1: linger in the mind. No man can pass his self
1:37:25
Speaker 1: imposed bounds or limitations. The man who would get up
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Speaker 1: in the world must learn to deny his belief in limitation.
1:37:33
Speaker 1: He must throw all negative suggestions to the wind. He
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Speaker 1: must think success before he can achieve it. He must
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Speaker 1: affirm continually, with decision and vigor, that which he wishes
1:37:43
Speaker 1: to accomplish or be. Suppose a boy some morning should
1:37:47
Speaker 1: say I can't get up. I can't get up. What's
1:37:50
Speaker 1: the use of trying? It is perfectly sure that he
1:37:53
Speaker 1: never could get out of bed until he thought he could,
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Speaker 1: until he had confidence in his ability to get up.
1:37:59
Speaker 1: How can a boy expect to rise in the world
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Speaker 1: when he is all the time saying to himself, I
1:38:04
Speaker 1: can't do this thing. It is useless to try. I
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Speaker 1: know I can't do it. Other boys may do it,
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Speaker 1: but I know I can't. The boy who thinks he
1:38:14
Speaker 1: can't get his iacins, who decides that he can't solve
1:38:17
Speaker 1: his problems, who is sure he can't go through college,
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Speaker 1: can never do any of these things. Very soon he
1:38:23
Speaker 1: becomes the victim of chronic can't. Negation has mastered him.
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Speaker 1: I can't has become the habit of his life. All
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Speaker 1: self respect and self confidence, all consciousness of ability, have
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Speaker 1: been undermined and destroyed. His achievement cannot rise higher than
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Speaker 1: his thoughts. Contrast this with the boy who always says
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Speaker 1: I will no matter what obstacles confront him. He says,
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Speaker 1: I will do the thing I have undertaken. It is
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Speaker 1: the constant affirmation of his determination to do the thing,
1:38:54
Speaker 1: which increases his confidence in himself and the power to
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Speaker 1: do the thing until he actually does it. It would
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Speaker 1: be impossible for a lawyer to make a reputation in
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Speaker 1: his profession while continually thinking about medicine or engineering. He
1:39:08
Speaker 1: must think about law. He must study and become thoroughly
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Speaker 1: imbued with its principles. It is absolutely unscientific to expect
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Speaker 1: to attain excellence or ability enough to gain distinction in
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Speaker 1: any particular line while holding the mind open and continually
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Speaker 1: contemplating something radically different. Is it not therefore more than foolish,
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Speaker 1: even ridiculous, to expect to develop a strong, vigorous mentality
1:39:32
Speaker 1: while acknowledging or contemplating weakness or deficiency. As long as
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Speaker 1: you contemplate any personal defect, mental, moral, or physical, you
1:39:41
Speaker 1: will fall below your possible attainment. You cannot approach your ideal,
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Speaker 1: your standard. As long as you allow negative, destructive tearing
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Speaker 1: down processes to exist in your mind, you cannot create anything,
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Speaker 1: and you will be a weakling. Most people go through
1:39:57
Speaker 1: life crippled and handicapped by thinking weak thoughts, diseased thoughts,
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Speaker 1: failure thoughts. It would be just as sensible for a
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Speaker 1: girl to try to develop the highest type of beauty
1:40:07
Speaker 1: of physique and character by holding in her mind the
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Speaker 1: ugliest ideals and thinking of herself as hideous. If she
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Speaker 1: wishes to be beautiful, she must hold steadily the beauty
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Speaker 1: ideal in her mind and try to measure up to it.
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Speaker 1: Then not only the physical, but also the moral nature
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Speaker 1: responds to this effort to attain the esthetic ideal. But
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Speaker 1: if she goes through life thinking she is ugly and deformed,
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Speaker 1: and lamenting the fact, beauty will never respond. What a
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Speaker 1: misfortune to see bright young men or young women hampered
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Speaker 1: and kept back in their careers because of holding the
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Speaker 1: sickly ideal, the confession of weakness and defect. Banish these ghosts,
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Speaker 1: these unrealities, these enemies of your success and happiness, forever
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Speaker 1: from your mind. Rise up out of the valley of
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Speaker 1: despair and despondency, out of the miasma which has poisoned
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Speaker 1: the air around you, out of the foulness which has
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Speaker 1: suffocated you all these years, into the atmosphere of excellence,
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Speaker 1: of power, of beauty. Then you will begin to accomplish
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Speaker 1: something in life, to be somebody. If people could only
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Speaker 1: once realize the demoralizing influence of holding the sickly ideal,
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Speaker 1: the failure ideal in a mind, until the standards of
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Speaker 1: excellence are all dragged down to the level of mediocrity
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Speaker 1: or commonness, they would never again be content to dwell
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Speaker 1: in the valley of failure, to live in the basements
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Speaker 1: of their lives. How can a man be free, prosperous,
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Speaker 1: and happy while he is imprisoned and enslaved by the
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Speaker 1: poverty thought, the conviction that he is poor and unlucky,
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Speaker 1: and that he can never accumulate money as others do.
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Speaker 1: In what condition is a man to fight for prosperity
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Speaker 1: When he has lost confidence in his ability and is
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Speaker 1: convinced that opportunity is for others and not for him.
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Speaker 1: He cannot make a strenuous, energetic effort to release himself
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Speaker 1: from this condition. While he holds this failure thought, he
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Speaker 1: does not believe he can push away the limitations which
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Speaker 1: hedge him in. He sees no way to regain his
1:41:57
Speaker 1: confidence in self trust to get a foothold. So he
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Speaker 1: still thinks poverty, talks, poverty, acts poverty, dreams poverty, and
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Speaker 1: then wonders why he is unlucky. He has made himself
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Speaker 1: a negative magnet. He repels all the success qualities and
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Speaker 1: attracts only those of failure. He has lost his magnetic
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Speaker 1: power to attract the forces which can extricate him from sickly,
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Speaker 1: deadly environment. How many people drag through weary years of
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Speaker 1: self imposed invalidism. They can never rise into the health
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Speaker 1: atmosphere while they are contemplating the sickly ideal in the mind.
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Speaker 1: Deep rooted convictions of disease actually produce their physical counterparts.
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Speaker 1: The conviction, for example, that you have inherited the seeds
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Speaker 1: of some terrible disease such as cancer, and the fact
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Speaker 1: that your physician has told you it is liable to
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Speaker 1: show itself soon after the age of forty keep you
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Speaker 1: expectantly looking for the symptoms of this disease, and may
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Speaker 1: develop an ordinary sore into an ulcer. A young girl,
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Speaker 1: delicate sensitive to cold, has been told from her early
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Speaker 1: childhood she must exercise the greatest possible care because she
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Speaker 1: has surely inherited a consumptive tendency from her mother, who
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Speaker 1: died of consumption. This black picture of consumption and its
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Speaker 1: fearful ravages in the system, stamps itself indelibly upon the
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Speaker 1: young life and prevents healthful, buoyant growth or prompt physical reaction.
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Speaker 1: Dwelling upon these conditions ruins the appetite, disturbs digestion, cuts
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Speaker 1: off the assimilation of food until emaciation sets in. As
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Speaker 1: a result, and as if this were not enough to
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Speaker 1: discourage and dishearten the victim, everybody has to tell her
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Speaker 1: how bad she looks how she is growing thinner and
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Speaker 1: thinner every day. Very often they say, now be careful.
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Speaker 1: You know your mother went just by taking cold by
1:43:42
Speaker 1: exposure to a draft. They stuff her with cod liver oil,
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Speaker 1: and tonics. But these are sorry compensations for the resisting
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Speaker 1: power of the mind of which they have cruelly robbed her,
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Speaker 1: a poor substitute for the God given power of self
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Speaker 1: protection granted to every human being. They have disturbed the
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Speaker 1: child's beautiful natural feeling that it is protected by the
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Speaker 1: almighty arm, that it is made in God's image and
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Speaker 1: hence God defended, and that nothing can injure its reality.
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Speaker 1: Many a beautiful life has been stifled by such inculcated
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Speaker 1: fears and depressing influences. What a pitiable sight to see
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Speaker 1: a large proportion of the human race dogged through life
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Speaker 1: by such hideous pictures, dragging this terrible load of expectation
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Speaker 1: of being run down, overcome, crushed by some cruel fate,
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Speaker 1: attacked by some awful disease, the consequences of the sins
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Speaker 1: of our ancestors. This would be like sending a boy
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Speaker 1: to prison or to the gallows because his father committed
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Speaker 1: robbery or murder. The sooner we get this damnable philosophy
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Speaker 1: out of the minds of the young, the better for
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Speaker 1: the world. It would be just as reasonable to say
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Speaker 1: that the sun casts shadows, that love radiates hatred, that
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Speaker 1: harmony carries hidden discord in its very nature. To hold
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Speaker 1: such beliefs is not only cruelly wicked, but also absurd.
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Speaker 1: The Creator does not light our lives and prospects in
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Speaker 1: this way. These fearsome pictures are drawn by human artists.
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Speaker 1: They have no divine origin. No matter what the conditions
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Speaker 1: of our birth, we have the power of the infinite
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Speaker 1: to overcome them. Chapter eleven, Affirmation creates power. An affirmation
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Speaker 1: is a statement of truth consciously used so as to
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Speaker 1: become the directing power of life's expression. Only he can
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Speaker 1: who thinks he can. The world makes way only for
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Speaker 1: the determined man, or the man who laughs at barriers
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Speaker 1: which limit others, at stumbling blocks over which others fall.
1:45:35
Speaker 1: The man who, as Emerson says, hitches his wagon to
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Speaker 1: a star, is more likely to arrive at his goal
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Speaker 1: than the one who trails in the slimy path of
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Speaker 1: the snail. Confidence is the father of achievement. It reinforces ability,
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Speaker 1: doubles energy, buttresses mental faculties increases power. Your thought will
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Speaker 1: carry only the force of your conviction, the weight of
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Speaker 1: your decision, the power of your confidence. If these are weak,
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Speaker 1: your thought will be weak in your work feudle. Some
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Speaker 1: people are incapable of strong, deep conviction. They are all
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Speaker 1: surface and liable to be changed by the opinions of
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Speaker 1: everybody else. If they resolve upon a certain course, their
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Speaker 1: resolution is so superficial that the first obstacle they strike
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Speaker 1: to flex them. They are always at the mercy of
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Speaker 1: the opposition or of people who do not agree with them.
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Speaker 1: Such people are shifty and unreliable. They lack strength of decision,
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Speaker 1: positiveness of resolution. What is a man good for if
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Speaker 1: he hasn't strength of resolution, If his convictions are on
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Speaker 1: the surface, he stands for nothing. Nobody has confidence in him.
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Speaker 1: He may be a good man personally, but he does
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Speaker 1: not inspire confidence. No one would think of calling upon
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Speaker 1: him when anything of importance was at stake. Unless conviction
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Speaker 1: takes hold of one's very being, there will be very
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Speaker 1: little achievement in life. It is the man whose conviction
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Speaker 1: is rooted deep and takes hold of his very life blood.
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Speaker 1: The man who is strong and persistent in his determination
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Speaker 1: that can be depended upon. He is the man of
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Speaker 1: influence who carries weight. He is above the influence of
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Speaker 1: any man who happens to have a different opinion. If
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Speaker 1: young people only knew the power of affirmation, of the
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Speaker 1: habit of holding in the mind persistently and affirming that
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Speaker 1: they are what they wish to be, that they can
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Speaker 1: do what they have attempted, it would revolutionize their whole lives.
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Speaker 1: It would exempt them from most of their ills and troubles,
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Speaker 1: and carry them to heights of which they scarcely dream.
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Speaker 1: We are always talking about the power of the will.
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Speaker 1: Its exercise is only another form of affirmation the will,
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Speaker 1: the determination to do a thing, is the same as
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Speaker 1: the affirmation of the ability to do it. No one
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Speaker 1: ever accomplishes anything in this world until he affirms, in
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Speaker 1: one way or another, that he can do what he undertakes.
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Speaker 1: It is almost impossible to keep a man back who
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Speaker 1: has affirm faith in his mission, who believes that he
1:47:58
Speaker 1: can do the thing before him, that he is equal
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Speaker 1: to the obstacles which confront him, that he is more
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Speaker 1: than a match for his environment. The constant affirmation of
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Speaker 1: ability to succeed and of our determination to do so,
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Speaker 1: carries us past difficulties, defies obstacles, laughs at misfortunes, and
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Speaker 1: strengthens the power to achieve. It reinforces and buttresses the
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Speaker 1: natural faculties and powers, and holds them to their tasks.
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Speaker 1: Constant affirmation increases courage, and courage is the backbone of confidence. Furthermore,
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Speaker 1: when a person gets in a tight place and says
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Speaker 1: I must, I can, I will, he not only reinforces
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Speaker 1: his courage and strengthens his confidence, but also weakens the
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Speaker 1: opposite qualities. Whatever strengthens a positive will weaken the corresponding negative.
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Speaker 1: You can do a difficult thing only with a positive
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Speaker 1: state of mind, never with a negative. Plus force not
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Speaker 1: minus does things. The dominant qualities are all positive, assertive, aggressive,
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Speaker 1: and they require a core responding attitude of mind for
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Speaker 1: their exercise and application. A man who has not these
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Speaker 1: dominant qualities can never be a leader or independent. He
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Speaker 1: must be a trailer an imitator until he changes his
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Speaker 1: thought from negative to positive, from doubtful to certain, from
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Speaker 1: shrinking and retiring to asserting and advancing. It is the
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Speaker 1: decisive positive soul that wins. If you wish to amount
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Speaker 1: to anything in the world. Never for one moment permit
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Speaker 1: the idea to come into your mind that you are unlucky,
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Speaker 1: that you are less fortunate than other human beings. Deny
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Speaker 1: it with all the power you can muster. Discipline yourself.
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Speaker 1: Never to acknowledge weakness or think of mental, physical, or
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Speaker 1: moral defects. Deny that you are a weakling, that you
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Speaker 1: cannot do what others can do, that you are handicapped
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Speaker 1: and must be satisfied to take an inferior position in
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Speaker 1: the world. Strangle every doubt as you would a viper
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Speaker 1: threatening your life. Never talk, think, or write of your
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Speaker 1: poverty or unfortunate condition out of your life. All thought
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Speaker 1: that limits, hampers, dwarfs and darkens it. These are ghosts
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Speaker 1: of fear. The Creator never made them or intended them
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Speaker 1: to haunt and torment you. He made you for happiness,
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Speaker 1: for joy, for conquest over your environment. Persistently affirm that
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Speaker 1: the Creator handicapped no one, that our limitations are all
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Speaker 1: our own. Resolve that come what may, you will be
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Speaker 1: an optimist, that there shall be nothing pessimistic in you.
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Speaker 1: Believe in the final triumph of the right, the victory
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Speaker 1: of all that is true and noble. Affirm that you
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Speaker 1: are one of the most fortunate beings. Congratulate yourself that
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Speaker 1: you were born just in the nick of time and
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Speaker 1: in just the right place. That there is a definite
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Speaker 1: work for you to do that no one else can do,
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Speaker 1: and that you are one of the luckiest persons in
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Speaker 1: the world to have the opportunity, the health, the education
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Speaker 1: to do the tiling you are bound to accomplish. If
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Speaker 1: you are out of work and poor, just throw out
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Speaker 1: of your mind every idea of penury and poverty. Hold
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Speaker 1: the thought of plenty of abundance of all good which
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Speaker 1: the Creator has promised you. Stoutly deny that you are
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Speaker 1: poor or miserable or unlucky. Claim that you are lucky,
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Speaker 1: that you are well, vigorous and strong, that you must
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Speaker 1: succeed and you will succeed. Always affirm that the Creator
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Speaker 1: who gave you the longing to be somebody and to
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Speaker 1: do something in the world, has also given you the
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Speaker 1: ability and the opportunity to realize the ambition. When you
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Speaker 1: set your mind toward achievement, let everything about you indicate success.
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Speaker 1: Let your manner, your dress, your bearing, your conversation, and
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Speaker 1: everything you do speak achievement in success, carry always a
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Speaker 1: success atmosphere with you. You will find a wonderful advantage
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Speaker 1: in starting out every morning with the mindset towards success
1:51:46
Speaker 1: and achievement by permeating it with thoughts of prosperity and harmony,
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Speaker 1: whether by repetition of set formulas, as some advise or not,
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Speaker 1: it will then be so much the harder for discord
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Speaker 1: to get into the day's work. You are inclined to
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Speaker 1: doubt your ability to do any particular thing. School yourself
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Speaker 1: to hold the self trust thought firmly and persistently. It
1:52:07
Speaker 1: is the assumption of power, of self trust, of confidence
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Speaker 1: in yourself, in your integrity or wholeness that cannot be shaken,
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Speaker 1: that will enable you to become strong and to do
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Speaker 1: with vigor and ease the thing you undertake. You will
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Speaker 1: find that the perpetual holding of these ideals will change
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Speaker 1: your whole outlook upon life. You will approach your problems
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Speaker 1: from a new standpoint, and life will take on a
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Speaker 1: fresh meaning. This perpetual affirmation will put you in harmony
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Speaker 1: with your surroundings. It will make you contented and happy,
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Speaker 1: and it will be a powerful tonic for your health.
1:52:40
Speaker 1: It will help you to build up individuality and personal power.
1:52:44
Speaker 1: It will make your brain clearer, your thought more effective.
1:52:48
Speaker 1: Keeping the mental machinery clean makes for vigorous thinking decisive action.
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Speaker 1: If you are deficient in any quality, you can strengthen
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Speaker 1: it by constant affirmation. If you are a coward anywhere
1:53:00
Speaker 1: in your nature, and most people are, you can strengthen
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Speaker 1: courage by constantly affirming that you are absolutely fearless, that
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Speaker 1: you are courageous, that nothing can harm you. Reason that
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Speaker 1: fear is simply the sense of danger. And when you
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Speaker 1: have perfect confidence in the Great Creator's purpose, when you
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Speaker 1: trust it implicitly, there will be no cause for fear.
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Speaker 1: If you have convinced yourself that there is only one
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Speaker 1: great cause, that the opposite must be a delusion, you
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Speaker 1: will gradually lose the sense of fear and gain the
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Speaker 1: courage you desire. Every time you feel a sense of
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Speaker 1: fear come over, you say, I am absolutely fearless. There
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Speaker 1: is nothing to fear. Fear is not a reality, It
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Speaker 1: is not the truth of being. It is only the
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Speaker 1: absence of courage based upon ignorance of the great Cause.
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Speaker 1: Emerson knew the virtue of this philosophy when he said
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Speaker 1: nerve us with incessant affirmation. Don't bark against the bad,
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Speaker 1: but chant the beauties of the good. Stoutly determine not
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Speaker 1: to harbor anything in the mind which you do not
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Speaker 1: wish to become real in your life. Shun poisoned thoughts
1:54:02
Speaker 1: ideas which depress and make you unhappy, as instinctively as
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Speaker 1: you avoid physical danger of any kind. Do not entertain
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Speaker 1: a discordant or an unhappy thought, or a thought of
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Speaker 1: weakness and misery, but replace all these with cheerful, hopeful,
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Speaker 1: optimistic thoughts. When you feel out of sorts, blue, discouraged, disheartened,
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Speaker 1: if you form the habit of suggesting to yourself some
1:54:25
Speaker 1: agreeable or pleasant subject to dwell upon, or think about,
1:54:28
Speaker 1: or take up some word or idea which will suggest pleasure,
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Speaker 1: happiness and harmony, you will be surprised to see how
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Speaker 1: quickly you can change the whole course of your thought.
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Speaker 1: And when this is changed, the feeling will change. Also
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Speaker 1: you will increase your courage and confidence, and this is
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Speaker 1: half the battle. You will soon find that your environment
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Speaker 1: will begin to change, hope will brighten, you will have
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Speaker 1: a healthier outlook upon life. Then thought, instead of depressing
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Speaker 1: your mind will be a perpetual tonic of encouragement, and
1:54:59
Speaker 1: light will sou break and drive out the darkness. All
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Speaker 1: that you dream of, all that you yearn for and
1:55:05
Speaker 1: long to be, will be within your reach if you
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Speaker 1: have the power to affirm sufficiently strong, if you can
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Speaker 1: focus your faculties with sufficient intentness on a single purpose.
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Speaker 1: It is concentration upon the thing you wish that brings
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Speaker 1: it to you, whether it is health, money, or position.
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Speaker 1: Constantly affirm that which you wish, Hold it persistently in
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Speaker 1: the thought, Concentrate all the power of your mind upon it,
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Speaker 1: and when the mind is sufficiently positive and creative, the
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Speaker 1: desired thing will come to you as certainly as a
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Speaker 1: stone will come to the earth when left free in
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Speaker 1: the air. Through the attracting influence of gravitation, you make
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Speaker 1: yourself a magnet to draw the condition you wish. Chapter twelve.
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Speaker 1: Thoughts radiate as influence. Gaze thou in the face of
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Speaker 1: thy brother, in those eyes where plays the lambent fire
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Speaker 1: of kindness, or in those where rages the lurid conflagration
1:55:54
Speaker 1: of anger. Feel by thy own so quiet soul is
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Speaker 1: straightway involuntarily kindled with the like, And yet lay and
1:56:00
Speaker 1: reverberate on each other till it is all one limitless,
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Speaker 1: confluent flame of embracing love or of deadly grasping hate.
1:56:08
Speaker 1: And then say what miraculous virtue goes out of man
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Speaker 1: into man? Carlyle. Our thoughts, while most powerfully acting on
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Speaker 1: our end lives, by no means, exhaust their force. There.
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Speaker 1: They are not held prisoners within our minds or bodies.
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Speaker 1: Potent with influence. They fly from us every instant, working
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Speaker 1: for weal or for woe. Every thought which genius and
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Speaker 1: piety throw into the world alters the world, says Emerson,
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Speaker 1: this must not be taken merely to mean printed thoughts,
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Speaker 1: or thoughts spoken from pulpit or rostrum, or even thoughts
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Speaker 1: spoken at all. Our most secret, unuttered thoughts go forth
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Speaker 1: and affect the world, the people all about us. Every
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Speaker 1: man has an atmosphere peculiar to himself, pervaded by all
1:56:54
Speaker 1: of his characteristics, his ambitions and aspirations, absolutely determined by
1:56:59
Speaker 1: the thoughts that govern all his actions. The impression which
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Speaker 1: he gives everybody who comes in contact with him partakes
1:57:05
Speaker 1: of his ideal. The quality of his ambition enters into
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Speaker 1: his every voluntary act. It is not what you say,
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Speaker 1: so much as the bearing of your thought toward others
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Speaker 1: that forms their estimate of you. Do not flatter yourself
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Speaker 1: that you are known only by what you say, that
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Speaker 1: you are measured by what you choose to give people
1:57:23
Speaker 1: about yourself. You create in others. The impression which you
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Speaker 1: hold in your own mind. What you think about modifies
1:57:31
Speaker 1: and reaffirms others opinions of you. They feel the quality
1:57:35
Speaker 1: of your thought. They know whether it has power or weakness,
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Speaker 1: whether it is clean, lofty and noble, or base and low.
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Speaker 1: They can tell, by your silent radiations the character of
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Speaker 1: your ideals, and they estimate you accordingly. In fact, this conviction,
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Speaker 1: which has come from their silent impression of you, may
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Speaker 1: be held firmly, even against your verbal protest to the contrary.
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Speaker 1: As Emerson says, what you speak so loud, I cannot
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Speaker 1: hear what you say. The atmosphere we radiate must, of
1:58:05
Speaker 1: necessity partake of ourselves. We cannot radiate anything unlike ourselves.
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Speaker 1: It does not matter what we pretend to be. People
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Speaker 1: who know us take our real measure, not the pretended one.
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Speaker 1: We can best estimate the effect we produce on others
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Speaker 1: by analyzing the effect other persons have upon us. We
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Speaker 1: know our real friends by the bearing of their thought
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Speaker 1: toward us. We know that they feel generous and magnanimous
1:58:31
Speaker 1: toward us, whatever our faults. They are constantly radiating themselves
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Speaker 1: into our consciousness. It does not matter how pleasant, agreeable,
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Speaker 1: or considered a man may be toward us, if he
1:58:43
Speaker 1: holds antagonistic thoughts, mean thoughts, if he carries a grudge,
1:58:47
Speaker 1: if he is not what he pretends to be, our
1:58:49
Speaker 1: instinct will penetrate beneath his pretense and unmask his real self.
1:58:53
Speaker 1: And while he thinks he deceives us, we feel instinctively
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Speaker 1: what he really is. How often one hears I can't
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Speaker 1: bear that man. He gives me the creeps. Yet the
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Speaker 1: individual in question may have been doing his best to
1:59:06
Speaker 1: make a good impression and thinking all the time that
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Speaker 1: he was succeeding in the home and in the office.
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Speaker 1: In every relation of life, radiation of one's own thoughts
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Speaker 1: plays an important part. No care and effort can be
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Speaker 1: too great that make this radiating influence always helpful, uplifting, beneficent.
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Speaker 1: How much harm we can do in a single day
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Speaker 1: by casting a dark shadow across some bright life, depressing buoyancy,
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Speaker 1: crushing hopes, strangling aspirations, more harm than we can undo
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Speaker 1: in years. We should be appalled if we could see
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Speaker 1: pass before us in vivid panorama, the wrecks of a
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Speaker 1: lifetime caused by cruel thought. A stab here, a thrust there,
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Speaker 1: a cruel malicious sarcasm, bitter irony, ungenerous criticisms, jealous thought,
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Speaker 1: envious thought, hatred, anger, revengeful thought are all going out
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Speaker 1: constantly from many a mind on their deadly missions. A morose, gloomy,
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Speaker 1: crestfallen mortal flings out his pessimism wherever he goes, and
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Speaker 1: poisons the atmosphere around him, surcharging it with heaviness, depression
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Speaker 1: and sadness. Success and happiness are not born in such
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Speaker 1: an atmosphere. Hope cannot live in it, Joy flees from it,
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Speaker 1: No child can be happy in it. Laughter is suppressed.
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Speaker 1: Sweet joyous faces become cloudy. We feel that life would
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Speaker 1: be unendurable if we had to remain in it indefinitely.
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Speaker 1: What a relief it is when such a person drags
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Speaker 1: his depressing presents from us. Some people make us feel
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Speaker 1: mean and contemptible in their presence. They call out of
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Speaker 1: us meanness which we never knew we possessed, and make
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Speaker 1: us almost despise ourselves. Marriage sometimes reveals undesirable qualities which
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Speaker 1: neither husband nor wife suspected in themselves before. Some people
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Speaker 1: emit a sort of miasmatic atmosphere which poisons everything that
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Speaker 1: comes within its reach, no matter how genus and magnanimous
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Speaker 1: we felt before. When these characters come near us, we
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Speaker 1: shrivel and shrink within ourselves, and there is no responsiveness,
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Speaker 1: no spontaneity possible, until they go out of our presence.
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Speaker 1: Like disturbed clams, we shut ourselves up as tightly as
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Speaker 1: possible until we feel that we are out of danger.
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Speaker 1: We cannot be ourselves when near such people. We try
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Speaker 1: to be agreeable with them, but somehow everything is forced.
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Speaker 1: We cannot be sociable with them. We see mill at
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Speaker 1: ease until they have departed. Then we feel that a
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Speaker 1: heavy weight is lifted from us and we are ourselves again.
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Speaker 1: Other people act like a tonic or an invigorating and
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Speaker 1: refreshing breeze. They make us feel like new beings by
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Speaker 1: the inspiration of their presence. They stimulate our thoughts, quicken
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Speaker 1: our faculties, sharpen our intellect, open the flood gates of
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Speaker 1: language and sentiment and awaken the poetic within us. These
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Speaker 1: diverse effects come from the radiation or expression of personality,
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Speaker 1: and we ourselves are producing such on others all all
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Speaker 1: the time. We radiate what we feel and believe, our
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Speaker 1: fleeting moods, and our deep seated convictions, what we think
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Speaker 1: most about and strive to become. We radiate to others
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Speaker 1: in our every letter, in every conversation, in our manner,
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Speaker 1: in our life. Spirit is contagious and will be quickly
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Speaker 1: perceived or even taken on by those with whom we
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Speaker 1: come in contact. If the mind is in harmony and peace,
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Speaker 1: if it is strong and healthy, we radiate health, peace,
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Speaker 1: and harmony wherever we go. On the contrary, if you
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Speaker 1: are in doubt, if you are discouraged and disheartened, you
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Speaker 1: will communicate discouraged thoughts. How can a mind always filled
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Speaker 1: with self depreciation, distrust, and the dread of failure radiate
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Speaker 1: the confidence which is necessary to ensure credit and assistance
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Speaker 1: from others. If you hold mean contemptible thoughts, if you
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Speaker 1: harbor revenge, jealousy, and envy, you reflect these thoughts to
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Speaker 1: those about you. If you are selfish, You cannot help
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Speaker 1: radiating the self selfish thought. Everybody about you will feel
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Speaker 1: your meanness and will measure you accordingly. If you are
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Speaker 1: a miser, if you are greedy and avaricious, you cannot
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Speaker 1: get away from your greed, but you must pay the
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Speaker 1: penalty of your aim. You cannot radiate magnanimity if you
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Speaker 1: are mean and stingy. If the attitude of your mind
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Speaker 1: dwarfs and stunts all that is beautiful in life. If
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Speaker 1: the tendency of your mind is to hinder, you cannot
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Speaker 1: give out the opposite to the world. If you think blighting,
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Speaker 1: chilling thoughts, you will radiate the same. Your aspirations and longings,
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Speaker 1: whether for money or for fame or real helpfulness to others,
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Speaker 1: will determine the character of your radiations. As we can
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Speaker 1: only communicate the quality of our thought at the moment,
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Speaker 1: how important that we control these thoughts and make them clean, pure,
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Speaker 1: true thoughts instead of foul, demoralizing doubtful ones. Servants have
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Speaker 1: actually been made dishonest by other persons, perpetually holding the
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Speaker 1: suspicion that they were dishonest. This thought, continually held by
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Speaker 1: people who are naturally suspicious, suggests the thought, perhaps to
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Speaker 1: the suspected for the first time, and being constantly held,
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Speaker 1: their takes root and grows and bears the fruit of theft.
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Speaker 1: It is simply cruel to hold a suspicious thought of
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Speaker 1: another until you have positively proved its authenticity. That other
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Speaker 1: person's mind is sacred. You have no right to invade
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Speaker 1: it with your miserable thoughts and pictures of suspicion. You
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Speaker 1: should keep your wicked thoughts at home, but as this
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Speaker 1: is impossible, you should not harbor them any more than
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Speaker 1: you would allow yourself to hold thoughts of sin or crime.
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Speaker 1: Many a being has been made wretched and miserable for years, depressed, despondent,
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Speaker 1: and borne down by the uncharitable wicked thoughts of those
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Speaker 1: about them. Many people scatter fear thoughts, doubt thoughts fail
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Speaker 1: your thoughts wherever they go, and these take root in
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Speaker 1: minds that might otherwise be free from them, and therefore happy, confident,
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Speaker 1: and successful. Be sure that when you hold an evil
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Speaker 1: thought toward another, an unhealthy thought, a discordant thought, a
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Speaker 1: diseased thought, a deadly thought, something is wrong in your mind.
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Speaker 1: You should call halt about face, look toward the sunlight,
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Speaker 1: determine that if you cannot do any good in the world,
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Speaker 1: you will not scatter seeds of poison, the venom of
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Speaker 1: malice and hatred. Always hold kindly thoughts, charitable, magnanimous, loving
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Speaker 1: thoughts toward everybody. Then you will not depress them and
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Speaker 1: hinder them, but will scatter sunshine and gladness instead of
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Speaker 1: sadness and shadow, help and encouragement instead of discouragement. Be
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Speaker 1: one of those who are always radiating success thoughts, health thoughts,
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Speaker 1: joy thoughts, uplifting, helpful thoughts, scattering sunshine wherever they go.
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Speaker 1: These are the helpers of the world, the lighteners of burdens,
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Speaker 1: the people who ease the jolts of life, and suit
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Speaker 1: the wounded, and give solace to the discouraged. Learn to
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Speaker 1: radiate joy, not stingily, not meanly, but generously, fling out
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Speaker 1: your gladness without reserve, shed it in the home, on
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Speaker 1: the street, on the car, in the store, everywhere, as
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Speaker 1: the rose sheds its beauty and flings out its fragrance.
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Speaker 1: When the world learns that love thoughts heal, that they
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Speaker 1: carry balm to wounds, that thoughts of harmony, of beauty,
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Speaker 1: and of truth always uplift beautify and ennoble, that the
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Speaker 1: opposite carry death, destruction, and blight everywhere it will learn
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Speaker 1: the true secret of right living Chapter thirteen. How thinking
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Speaker 1: brings success. He who dares assert the eye may calmly
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Speaker 1: wait while hurrying fate meets his demands with sure supply.
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Speaker 1: Helen Wilmans. Strong man hypnotized into a belief that he
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Speaker 1: cannot rise from his chair is actually powerless to do
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Speaker 1: so till the spell is removed. A frail woman nerved
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Speaker 1: by necessity for saving life can carry a person heavier
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Speaker 1: than herself from danger by fire or flood. In both cases,
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Speaker 1: the mental attitude, not the physical ability to turn, means
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Speaker 1: the result. Yet both acts are only work for muscle.
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Speaker 1: When a task to be done consists largely or wholly
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Speaker 1: of mental acts, as do most kinds of success winning,
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Speaker 1: how much greater must be the determining power of the
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Speaker 1: thought and mental attitude. Either conquerors of the world, whether
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Speaker 1: on battle fields, in trade, or in moral struggles, have
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Speaker 1: won by the attitude of mind in which they went
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Speaker 1: at the work they had to do. I wish it
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Speaker 1: were possible to impress upon the minds of a young
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Speaker 1: the tremendous power which right thinking has to bring about success,
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Speaker 1: realization of our inherent capacity for great things, conviction that
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Speaker 1: we are intended to succeed, and that it is a
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Speaker 1: positive sin to spoil the plans of our creator by
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Speaker 1: failing would revolutionize our lives and abolish most of our
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Speaker 1: ills and troubles. The belief in limitations, the conviction that
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Speaker 1: we cannot rise out of our environments, that we are
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Speaker 1: the victims of circumstances, is responsible for a weakening of
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Speaker 1: achievement faculties and an undermining of executive ability, which cause untold,
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Speaker 1: tragic failures a large part of the poverty and wretchedness
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Speaker 1: of mankind. Such belief is abnormal, and it produces abnormal conditions.
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Speaker 1: Dominion was man's birthright, but he has adopted weakness and limitation.
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Speaker 1: He has claimed poverty, wretchedness, and slavery in place of riches, happiness,
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Speaker 1: and freedom. And how can a man rise out of
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Speaker 1: his wretchedness until he thinks and believes he can? Is
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Speaker 1: there any science whereby a man can when he thinks
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Speaker 1: he can't? Is there any philosophy whereby a man can
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Speaker 1: rise until he looks up? Is there any way by
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Speaker 1: which a man can succeed while he thinks, talks, and lives.
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Speaker 1: A failure man cannot go in opposite directions at the
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Speaker 1: same time. There is no certainty in the presence of doubt.
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Speaker 1: Until you erase fate and can't and doubt from your vocabulary,
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Speaker 1: you cannot rise. You cannot get strong while you harbor
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Speaker 1: convictions of your weakness, or be happy while you dwell
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Speaker 1: on your miseries or misfortunes. A person might as well
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Speaker 1: expect to be come healthy and strong by always thinking
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Speaker 1: and talking about his poor health, saying that he never
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Speaker 1: expects to be robust as to expect the executive faculties
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Speaker 1: to be strong and vigorous while he is perpetually doubting
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Speaker 1: his ability to do what he undertakes nothing so weakens
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Speaker 1: the mind and renders it totally unfit for effective thinking.
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Speaker 1: As the constant acknowledgment of weakness or doubt of one's
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Speaker 1: ability to accomplish. The majority of persons who fail begin
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Speaker 1: by doubting their ability to do the things they attempt.
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Speaker 1: The moment a young man starting out on a career
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Speaker 1: admits doubt into his mind, he is letting an enemy
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Speaker 1: into his camp, a spy who will betray him. Doubt
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Speaker 1: belongs to the failure family, and once admitted and not expelled,
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Speaker 1: will introduce mister take it easy, mister let up a little,
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Speaker 1: mister let go when it gets hard, mister Waite, and
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Speaker 1: other members of the failure family. When these once get
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Speaker 1: into the mind, they attract other qualities like themselves, and
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Speaker 1: there is an end of ambition. Your longing for prosperity
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Speaker 1: and yearning for achievement will all be vain. While you
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Speaker 1: are entertaining the idlers, the losers, the failures, they will
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Speaker 1: exhaust your energy, destroy your power for attracting success. Failure
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Speaker 1: will soon be in the ascendancy in your mind and
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Speaker 1: in your actions. The moment you admit weakness, the moment
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Speaker 1: you confess defeat, you are gone. There is no hope
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Speaker 1: for a man who has lost his stamina, who has
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Speaker 1: given up the struggle. You can't do anything with him.
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Speaker 1: If there is anything despicable in the world, it is
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Speaker 1: a human being who has lain down, who has given up,
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Speaker 1: who says I can't it's no use. The world's against me.
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Speaker 1: I am down on my luck. To hold perpetually the
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Speaker 1: thought that you are down, that you cannot rise, that
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Speaker 1: success is for others but not for you. Is to
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Speaker 1: adjust yourself to your thought, and to make any other
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Speaker 1: condition impossible. How can you expect to be lucky when
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Speaker 1: you are always talking about your ill luck. As long
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Speaker 1: as you think you are a poor, miserable worm of
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Speaker 1: the dust, you will be that. You cannot rise above
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Speaker 1: your thought. You cannot be different from your conception of yourself.
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Speaker 1: If you really believe you are unhappy, unlucky, and miserable,
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Speaker 1: you will be so. There are no drugs or patent
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Speaker 1: medicines or influences in the world that can get you
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Speaker 1: out of this condition until you change your thought, and
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Speaker 1: a reversal of thought will bring about a reversal of
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Speaker 1: conditions in the body, as surely as the sun and
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Speaker 1: the rain unfold the petals of a rosebud. There is
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Speaker 1: no mystery about it. It is purely scientific. People who
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Speaker 1: do great things are powerful in their affirmations. They have
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Speaker 1: tremendous positive ability. They do not know the meaning of negatives.
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Speaker 1: Their power of assertion and their conviction of ability to
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Speaker 1: do are so strong that the opposites do not trouble them.
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Speaker 1: When they make up their minds to do a thing,
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Speaker 1: they take it for granted that they can do it.
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Speaker 1: They are not filled with doubts and fears, no matter
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Speaker 1: how people may scoff and cry crank. In fact, nearly
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Speaker 1: all the great men and women who have pushed progress
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Speaker 1: along the called cranks the world said they had wheels
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Speaker 1: in their heads. We owe the blessings of modem civilization
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Speaker 1: to the sublime confidence of such men and women in themselves,
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Speaker 1: that indomitable faith in their mission which nothing could shake,
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Speaker 1: the history of all great forward movements is contained in
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Speaker 1: their biographies. What if Copernicus and Galileo had given up
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Speaker 1: when they were denounced as cranks and insane. Science of
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Speaker 1: to day is built on their unshaken confidence that the
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Speaker 1: world is round, and that the Earth moves around the
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Speaker 1: Sun instead of the Sun around it. Suppose Columbus had
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Speaker 1: given up and lost confidence in himself when Europe was
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Speaker 1: laughing at him as a crank. Suppose Cyrus w Field
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Speaker 1: had lain down after a dozen years of fruitless endeavor
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Speaker 1: to span the sea when Cable after Cable had parted
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Speaker 1: in mid ocean. Suppose he had listened to his relatives
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Speaker 1: who said he was wasting his fortune and would die
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Speaker 1: in poverty. Suppose Fulton had given up under ridicule when
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Speaker 1: a book was written to prove proved that a ship
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Speaker 1: could not carry coal enough to force its way across
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Speaker 1: the ocean. He lived to see that very book brought
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Speaker 1: across the sea in a steamship. What if Alexander Graham
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Speaker 1: Bell had lost faith in himself when he had expended
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Speaker 1: his last dollar in experimenting on the principle of the telephone,
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Speaker 1: and when the world called him a crank. When Savonarola
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Speaker 1: entered Florence as a poor, obscure priest and saw the
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Speaker 1: abject misery on every hand, brought about by unreasonable luxury
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Speaker 1: and fawning on wealth, he immediately determined that he would
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Speaker 1: uplift the standard of living. Although constantly approached with bribes,
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Speaker 1: money never influenced him. He kept his ideal always in sight.
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Speaker 1: He found Lorenzo di Medici at the height of his power.
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Speaker 1: At that time, the worldly Alexander the Sixth, who sympathized
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Speaker 1: with the wealthy and the powerful, was at the head
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Speaker 1: of the papacy. This did not discourage the sanguine reformer, and,
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Speaker 1: fighting almost single handed against overwhelming odds, believing that justice
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Speaker 1: would triumph, he finally did succeed in overthrowing the medici
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Speaker 1: despotism and established what he desired, a state wherein justice
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Speaker 1: shall rule. Savonarola died a martyr to the Church, lifting
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Speaker 1: its ideal high above the commonplace by helping to bring
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Speaker 1: about the Protestant Reformation. When Wolf was called before a
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Speaker 1: committee of Parliament and told that he had been selected
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Speaker 1: to lead the British in Canada, he was asked if
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Speaker 1: he thought he could end the war. He brandished his
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Speaker 1: sword about the room, struck the table with it, and
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Speaker 1: exhibited such extreme vainglory and egotism that the committee was
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Speaker 1: disgusted and regretted its choice. But when young Wolf was
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Speaker 1: leading his forces up to the Plains of Abraham, this
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Speaker 1: same confidence enabled him to vanquish the French forces under Montcalm, Napoleon, Bismarck, Hugo,
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Speaker 1: and many other great men have had such colossal faith
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Speaker 1: in themselves that they have excited antagonism and even ridicule.
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Speaker 1: But this quality is essential to all great achievement. It
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Speaker 1: has doubled, trebled, quadrupled the ordinary power of these men.
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Speaker 1: How else can we account for the achievement of a
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Speaker 1: Luther A Wesley, A Savonarola. Without this sublime faith, this
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Speaker 1: confidence in her mission, how could the fragile village maiden
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Speaker 1: Jean Dare have led and controlled a French army without
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Speaker 1: this power? How could she have led those thousands of
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Speaker 1: stalwart men as if they were children. This divine confidence
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Speaker 1: multiplied her power a thousandfold, until even the king obeyed her.
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Speaker 1: When our nation was threatened with civil war, the apparently
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Speaker 1: modest and unassuming Lincoln told some politicians that if they
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Speaker 1: would nominate him for president, he could be elected, and
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Speaker 1: that he could run the government. Think of this self
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Speaker 1: confidence of a man borah in a log cabin with
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Speaker 1: almost no advantages of education or culture. Think of the
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Speaker 1: sublime self confidence of Grant, who two years before had
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Speaker 1: been an obscure merchant, almost unknown outside of his own
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Speaker 1: little community. When he told Lincoln that he could end
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Speaker 1: the Civil War, he did end it in spite of
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Speaker 1: as severe public condemnation as a man ever received. Where
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Speaker 1: would the United States be today? Had Lincoln and Grant
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Speaker 1: lost confidence in themselves when denounced by the press. The
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Speaker 1: generals who had preceded Grant never had unreserved faith in
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Speaker 1: their ability as he had in his. Grant was the
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Speaker 1: complete master of the situation because there was no interrogation
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Speaker 1: point in his self confidence. He knew he could conquer
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Speaker 1: the enemy if only he had the men and the opportunity.
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Speaker 1: The others, always more or less in doubt, won only
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Speaker 1: partial victories. It was this grand self confidence and faith
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Speaker 1: in a just cause that led Jackson, with a handful
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Speaker 1: of men, to administer a most crushing defeat to an
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Speaker 1: army of trained English soldiers at New Orleans. It was
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Speaker 1: such faith that enabled General Taylor at Buena Vista, with
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Speaker 1: five thousand American soldiers to defeat sant Anna, who had
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Speaker 1: twenty thousand men. Confidence absolute trust is a creative force
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Speaker 1: which generates, produces, and achieves, while distrust tears down, annihilates,
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Speaker 1: and destroys. A strong self faith by eliminating doubt and uncertainty,
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Speaker 1: wonderfully increases the power of concentration because it withdraws distracting motives.
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Speaker 1: It makes possible a steady pushing forward with no side
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Speaker 1: pulls and scattering energy. Discoverers, inventors, reformers, generals all have
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Speaker 1: this spirit of invincible affirmation, while if we analyze failures,
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Speaker 1: we shall find that most of them are weak in
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Speaker 1: their self faith that they lack the abounding confidence in
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Speaker 1: themselves that marks successful persons. We cannot read the sealed
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Speaker 1: orders which the Creator has placed in the hands of
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Speaker 1: those destined to do great things, but the fact that
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Speaker 1: one has an unconquerable faith in himself is pretty good
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Speaker 1: evidence of his ability to do what he believes he can.
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Speaker 1: The Creator does not mock us with such convictions of
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Speaker 1: possibilities without granting the ability to do the deed. Never
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Speaker 1: allow yourself or anyone else to shake your confidence in
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Speaker 1: yourself to destroy your self reliance, for this is the
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Speaker 1: very foundation of all a great achievement. When that is gone,
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Speaker 1: your whole structure falls. As long as you have it,
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Speaker 1: there is hope for you. Confidence, unbounded, unshaken faith in yourself,
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Speaker 1: which even amounts to boldness at times, is absolutely necessary
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Speaker 1: in all great undertakings. Self faith helps inferior men to
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Speaker 1: accomplish results by eliminating fear, doubt, and uncertainty, the great
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Speaker 1: enemies of most men's achievement. The mind cannot act with
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Speaker 1: vigor in the presence of doubt. Wavering in the mind
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Speaker 1: makes wavering execution. There must be certainty or there is
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Speaker 1: no efficiency. The ignorant man who believes in himself, who
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Speaker 1: has the faith that he can do the thing he undertakes,
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Speaker 1: often puts to shame. The college bred man whose overculture
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Speaker 1: and wider outlook have brought with increased sensitiveness a lessening
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Speaker 1: of self confidence, and whose decision is weakened by constant
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Speaker 1: weaning of conflicting theories, whose prejudices are always open to conviction.
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Speaker 1: The ignorant man with great self confidence, strong vigorous self
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Speaker 1: assertion lacks the finer sentiments, but has spared the finer
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Speaker 1: suffering of a more sensitive, cultured mind. His brain powers
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Speaker 1: have not been weakened by theories or by the knowledge
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Speaker 1: of how much he does not know. He simply plunges
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Speaker 1: ahead where a cultured man would hesitate. The weakening of
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Speaker 1: self confidence. The development of timidity is often an unfortunate
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Speaker 1: result of a liberal education. I have known boys to
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Speaker 1: enter college with unbounded confidence in what they could accomplish,
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Speaker 1: with strong powers of self assertion, who have been graduated
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Speaker 1: with those qualities almost eliminated. They have been replaced by
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Speaker 1: the gradual development of timidity and a shrinking from positive
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Speaker 1: statement of fact, which seriously crippled the men's executive faculties.
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Speaker 1: Great scholars are proverbially retiring, shrinking, timid natures, often lacking
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Speaker 1: almost entirely the executive faculty. Their self assertion has disappeared,
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Speaker 1: giving place to self effacement. Unassuming, humbleness, patience, and tolerance
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Speaker 1: are very desirable qualities in their right places, but very
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Speaker 1: unfortunate when they are not subordinated to vigorous self faith
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Speaker 1: and an aggressive self assertion. These lovable qualities make the
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Speaker 1: scholar more companionable, but less practical and less successful. The
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Speaker 1: aggressive executive faculties should be preserved intact at all hazards,
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Speaker 1: or the career will be cramped and limited. Chapter fourteen.
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Speaker 1: Power of self faith over others. You conquer fate by thought.
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Speaker 1: If you think the fatal thought of men and institutions,
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Speaker 1: you need never pull the trigger. The consequences of thinking
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Speaker 1: inevitably follow. Carlyle. Success is not dependent solely on our
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Speaker 1: earnest affirmation, on our self confidence, but also on the
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Speaker 1: confidence of others in us. But this confidence is very
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Speaker 1: lately a reflection of our own the effect of our
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Speaker 1: own personality on them. Our own attitude of mind is
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Speaker 1: therefore the means to produce this confidence in others. Your
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Speaker 1: earnest affirmation is contagious. It affects everyone with whom you
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Speaker 1: come in contact, especially those whom you must master, whether
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Speaker 1: as a teacher, as an orator, as an attorney, as salesman,
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Speaker 1: as merchant, as possible employee, or in some other way.
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Speaker 1: There is something that seems almost magical in the way
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Speaker 1: a confident error influences other people. If you adopt or
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Speaker 1: acquire it, you will be surprised to see how soon
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Speaker 1: it will radiate to others, increasing their confidence in your
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Speaker 1: ability to do the thing you undertake. This is what
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Speaker 1: makes reputation and establishes credit. The men who possess conviction
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Speaker 1: of ability to accomplish what they undertake are positive, strong characters.
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Speaker 1: When a man feels a sense of mastery, of having
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Speaker 1: risen to his dominion, he talks confidence. He radiates faith
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Speaker 1: and conviction and overcomes doubts in others who catch the
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Speaker 1: contagion of his constant affirmation of assurance and confidence and
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Speaker 1: believe this to be proof of ability to succeed. People
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Speaker 1: believe in the man with a probe Graham, the man
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Speaker 1: who knows what he wants, who does not waver, but
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Speaker 1: does things everything seems to stand aside for him. People
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Speaker 1: who would oppose a man with weak self confidence readily
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Speaker 1: fall into line with his plans. Things which would trip
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Speaker 1: and dishearten a man with little self faith seem to
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Speaker 1: favor the confident man's progress. It is human nature to
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Speaker 1: help a man along the way he is going. If
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Speaker 1: he is going up, the world will boost him. If
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Speaker 1: he is going down, the world will kick him. If
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Speaker 1: a man lacks faith in himself, the world will lack
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Speaker 1: faith in him. Also we cannot help admiring a man
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Speaker 1: who believes lit himself. He cannot be laughed down, talk down,
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Speaker 1: or written down. Poverty cannot dishearten him, Misfortune deter him,
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Speaker 1: Hardship turn him a hair's breadth from his course. Whatever comes,
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Speaker 1: he keeps his eye to the goal and pushes on
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Speaker 1: a determined face, and an iron will win half the
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Speaker 1: battle before a blow is struck. The writer knows a
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Speaker 1: man who pushes everything he undertakes to completion, and has
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Speaker 1: been remarkably successful because he never hesitates. He never has
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Speaker 1: any doubt of his ability to do a thing his self.
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Speaker 1: Faith amounting to egotism at times repels some people, but
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Speaker 1: even they give way before him. While other people of
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Speaker 1: finer texture or make up are discussing the possibility or
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Speaker 1: feasibility of doing something doubting and wavering, this man does it.
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Speaker 1: Such a man compels his opponents to believe in his
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Speaker 1: ability in spite of real reasons against such faith. Average ability,
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Speaker 1: coupled with such aggressive self confidence, cuts a larger figure
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Speaker 1: in the world and gets more done than superlative ability,
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Speaker 1: with the timid and shrinking nature that often goes with it.
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Speaker 1: A teacher with a smattering of learning often succeeds better
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Speaker 1: than one ten times as learned, but unable to pass
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Speaker 1: it on to others or assert his mastery of the subject.
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Speaker 1: This is not poetic justice and often seems very unjust,
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Speaker 1: but it is the actual state of affairs, and the
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Speaker 1: remedy is for the really able to cultivate and assume
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Speaker 1: the conviction that will impress other people. In every kind
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Speaker 1: of work and business, we are dependent on the belief
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Speaker 1: of others that we can make or carry out plans,
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Speaker 1: can produce superior goods, can manage employees, can do any
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Speaker 1: of the thousand things demanded by employers or by the public.
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Speaker 1: Life is too short and the world too busy to
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Speaker 1: allow minute investigation of another's ability to achieve the thing
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Speaker 1: he professes to be able to do. Therefore, the world
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Speaker 1: accepts very largely a man's own estimate of himself until
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Speaker 1: he forfeits its confidence. If a young man hangs out
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Speaker 1: his law shingle, the world will take it for granted
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Speaker 1: that he is a lawyer, that he is fitted for
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Speaker 1: his profession until he proves otherwise. A physician does not
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Speaker 1: have to prove to each patient that he has followed
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Speaker 1: certain courses and past certain examinations. Therefore, to acknowledge any inability,
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Speaker 1: to give way to a temporary doubt is to give
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Speaker 1: failure so much advantage. We never should allow our self
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Speaker 1: faith to waver for a moment, no matter how dark
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Speaker 1: the way may be. Nothing will destroy confidence of others
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Speaker 1: so quickly as doubt in our own minds, which those
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Speaker 1: about us will soon feel. Many people fail because they
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Speaker 1: radiate their discouraged moods and project them into the minds
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Speaker 1: of those about them. If you are an employer, your
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Speaker 1: employees can easily tell whether you come to your day's
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Speaker 1: work as a conqueror with a sense of victory of confidence,
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Speaker 1: or as a beaten man in doubt. And despair. They
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Speaker 1: can tell whether you are going to win or lose
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Speaker 1: during the day by your countenance. Your manner. In no
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Speaker 1: business is the imparting of one's own confidence more potent
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Speaker 1: than in salesmanship, whether it be in the agent, the
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Speaker 1: commercial traveler, or the store clerk. In all these kinds
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Speaker 1: of selling, a species of hypnotism of mental influence is
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Speaker 1: practiced by great salesmen. An undecided customer, and most customers
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Speaker 1: are hesitating between two opinions, can be brought to a
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Speaker 1: decision by a skillful statement of the salesman's opinion, by
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Speaker 1: narrowing down the articles considered from several to two, by
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Speaker 1: an assumption that the decision is made in a move
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Speaker 1: to cut off the goods or wrap up the article
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Speaker 1: in any one of a hundred ways that every good
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Speaker 1: salesman practices continually. But with all these tricks of the
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Speaker 1: trade must go the firm decided, confident manner of the salesman,
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Speaker 1: which is communicated to the purchaser. If a traveling agent
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Speaker 1: lets doubt of a sale manifest itself in the slightest degree,
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Speaker 1: the purchaser jumps at the chance to escape, and after
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Speaker 1: that argument and persuasion are often useless. No one has
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Speaker 1: need of radiating proper mental attitudes more than the teacher.
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Speaker 1: A flustered, worried, uncertain teacher will throw a whole roomful
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Speaker 1: of children into disorder when a calm, self possessed, even
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Speaker 1: tempered person could have secured quiet and good work from
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Speaker 1: the same set of pupils. A teacher must often overcome
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Speaker 1: personal antagonism, harmonize quarrels between pupils, soothe worried little brains
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Speaker 1: too self conscious to learn or recite, and impress knotty
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Speaker 1: points of knowledge on minds that are too often inattentive.
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Speaker 1: All this he does by personality, which is simply the
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Speaker 1: radiation of one's own individuality. Young people are very susceptible
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Speaker 1: to the character of the thought which is held toward them.
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Speaker 1: They know whether the teacher is really interested in them
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Speaker 1: and wants to help them or not. They are quick
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Speaker 1: to feel selfish and unsympathetic natures. No teacher is fitted
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Speaker 1: for his or her sacred task who is not naturally sympathetic,
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Speaker 1: who does not hold loving, helpful thoughts toward pupils Chapter fifteen,
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Speaker 1: Building character. The universal self delusion is this when a
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Speaker 1: man has a good thought he fancies he has become
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Speaker 1: what he thinks. For the moment. Good thoughts are very good,
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Speaker 1: but unaccompanied by the difficult processes of character, they are
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Speaker 1: often no better than soap bubbles mozumdar. How strange that
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Speaker 1: a young woman will spend many hours a day for
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Speaker 1: years practicing on a piano or training her voice. That
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Speaker 1: a young man will give years of heart dry study
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Speaker 1: to the mastering of a profession or occupation. That an
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Speaker 1: artist will spend half a lifetime in learning how to
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Speaker 1: paint a picture. That an author will devote years to
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Speaker 1: the production of one book and yet be unwilling to
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Speaker 1: spend any considerable time in building a character that will
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Speaker 1: insure absolute peace of mind, contentment, and happiness under all circumstances.
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Speaker 1: I how pitiable it is to see a man sacrifice
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Speaker 1: the best years of his life to scraping together a
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Speaker 1: few thousand or a few million dollars, working early and late,
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Speaker 1: he has never thought it worth while to devote even
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Speaker 1: a few minutes each day to building up a wholesome, symmetrical,
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Speaker 1: contented character, to acquiring something which would protect him and
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Speaker 1: insure his serenity and self poise, no matter what losses
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Speaker 1: and misfortunes might overtake him. Most of us seem to
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Speaker 1: think that that which is worth more than all else
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Speaker 1: should come without effort, without special training or drill. In
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Speaker 1: the case of a few individuals of fortunate heredity and
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Speaker 1: advantageous environment, this may occur, but most of us need
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Speaker 1: some active and intelligent direction or effort. As Herbert Spencer said,
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Speaker 1: by no political alchemy can we get golden conduct out
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Speaker 1: of leaden instincts. But instincts can be changed, fresh grafts
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Speaker 1: can be introduced upon the stock, The whole tree can
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Speaker 1: be trained in a new direction, and so golden conduct
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Speaker 1: be made to flow from a golden character. How easy
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Speaker 1: it is to train the tender shoot in any direction,
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Speaker 1: to make it assume any shape we wish when it
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Speaker 1: first comes up through the soil, And how much this
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Speaker 1: training means to the symmetry and beauty of the future tree.
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Speaker 1: How easy for the mother, if she but know how
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Speaker 1: to train the young mind, to turn it from all
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Speaker 1: its little enemies, all the fear thoughts and worry thoughts,
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Speaker 1: the despondent thoughts, the sick thoughts, the failure thoughts, as
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Speaker 1: well as from the more vicious and recognizedly immoral thoughts.
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Speaker 1: In the past, much of the effort to build up
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Speaker 1: character has been dwelling on faults. Parents have reminded their
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Speaker 1: children a hundred times a day of some defect, until
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Speaker 1: the poor children have had that failing constantly in mind,
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Speaker 1: with them fixed idea that it was branded into their natures,
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Speaker 1: and that it was not of much use to try
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Speaker 1: to be different. This way of trying to build up
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Speaker 1: character is a good deal like trying to attain success
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Speaker 1: by thinking all the time of failure. Continual thinking about
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Speaker 1: defects in character one's sins and faults will impress them
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Speaker 1: and make them harder to eradicate. We gradually become negative
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Speaker 1: to good qualities by dwelling upon destructive characteristics. By reading
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Speaker 1: continually of diseases, medical students often experience symptoms of those diseases,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes the maladies themselves. Similarly, by dwelling on desirable
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Speaker 1: qualities we may acquire success or happiness. It is by
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Speaker 1: fresh graphs and suggestions of the virtues that the soundest
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Speaker 1: character growth is secured. A little care in choosing a
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Speaker 1: child's vocabulary, in teaching it that words are real things
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Speaker 1: and that they imprint on the mind. The images they
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Speaker 1: call up will make all the difference between happiness and misery,
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Speaker 1: success and failure. How easy it is to help the
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Speaker 1: child select those words which convey pictures of life and joy,
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Speaker 1: light and peace, comfort and happiness, to banish those discordant,
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Speaker 1: jarring words which contaminate the mind by the images they
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Speaker 1: stamp there, and which ultimately ruin the character and destroy
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Speaker 1: the life. Plays are now introduced into kindergarten schools, which
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Speaker 1: tend to develop and awaken the desired qualities which are
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Speaker 1: perhaps lacking in the children. Justice plays, for example, or
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Speaker 1: courage plays exercise certain functions and character qualities, and are
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Speaker 1: known to influence the pupils wonderfully. The constant repetition of
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Speaker 1: good manners plays arouses, for instance, a spirit of gallantry
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Speaker 1: and a sense of etiquette in a boy until he
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Speaker 1: unconsciously takes off his hat in the presence of a
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Speaker 1: lady without thinking of it. The ideal home is a
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Speaker 1: perpetual training school where children are always practicing courage plays,
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Speaker 1: courtesy plays, helpfulness plays, charity plays, plays of honesty and truthfulness,
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Speaker 1: and what is at first simulated becomes natural, producing sweetness, beauty,
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Speaker 1: and strength of character. Qualities apparently deficient can be awakened
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Speaker 1: and developed in a marvelous degree in the young. So
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Speaker 1: it is now believed that it is possible to develop
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Speaker 1: strong character even in the average child, under continuous, proper
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Speaker 1: scientific training. These repeated thought acts develop corresponding brain cells
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Speaker 1: until they respond at the slightest suggestion from an affinity,
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Speaker 1: the same as the brain spontaneously responds with the correct
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Speaker 1: result when we think of adding or subtracting figures. At first,
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Speaker 1: the suggestion had to be made and the thought repeated
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Speaker 1: many times, but after a while the repetition became automatic
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Speaker 1: in the brain, and we performed abstruse mathematical problems while
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Speaker 1: scarcely thinking of the processes. So we train the mind
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Speaker 1: to the character qualities which we desire. It is simply
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Speaker 1: a question of holding the thought persistently toward the thing
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Speaker 1: we desire until the new brain structure develops by exercise
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Speaker 1: becomes dominant. Then the character is set and will act automatically,
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Speaker 1: and the law to him that hath more shall be
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Speaker 1: given and the reverse comes into play. It has been
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Speaker 1: found that manual training learning to use the hands ingeniously
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Speaker 1: has its influence upon the brain and develops deficient faculties
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Speaker 1: to a remarkable degree. A boy who is naturally lazy
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Speaker 1: and indolent, whose faculties for doing things seem to be
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Speaker 1: wholly deficient, can be so trained in a short time
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Speaker 1: that he will love to work. As soon as he
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Speaker 1: gets a sufficiently strong motive and begins to exercise the
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Speaker 1: undeveloped brain cells controlling the faculties, they immediately respond. Merely
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Speaker 1: arousing a boy's ambition develops in him a great many
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Speaker 1: deficient qualities by putting them into healthy exercise. Change of
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Speaker 1: environment will often wondrously develop a backward boy whose parents
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Speaker 1: were completely discouraged with him under the home conditions. As
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Speaker 1: soon as the boy got into a store, or into
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Speaker 1: a school, or was thrown upon his own resources, his
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Speaker 1: whole character was changed. Various means which parents may employ
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Speaker 1: in forming the characters of their children are formulated by
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Speaker 1: doctor T. Schofield and may be summarized as follows. Forming
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Speaker 1: habits of moral value, controlling environments so that suggestions of
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Speaker 1: good physical, mental, and moral, and not of evil are
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Speaker 1: ever unconsciously sowing themselves in its brain by example and story,
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Speaker 1: filling the child with inspiring ideals so as to give
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Speaker 1: direction to its will and energy of growth to its character,
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Speaker 1: feeding the child's mind with proper ideas, Exercising the growing
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Speaker 1: moral powers with circumstances, so that overcoming and courage may
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Speaker 1: be learned and hardships endured, yet not too great to prove. Discouraging,
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Speaker 1: balancing the various tendencies one against the other, so as
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Speaker 1: to prevent undoe leaning in any one direction, strengthening the
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Speaker 1: will to carry out its own designs and act with
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Speaker 1: energy and decision, Educating the moral sense and keeping it
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Speaker 1: sensitive to evil, increasing the sense of responsibility to oneself,
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Speaker 1: to others, and to God. In attempting to apply such
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Speaker 1: processes to oneself, what must be avoided is morbid introspection
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Speaker 1: or brooding over faults and means to get rid of them. Use, then,
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Speaker 1: the method of cultivating the opposites, keeping the mind full
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Speaker 1: of bright, hopeful, loving, uplifting thoughts, and expressing them all
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Speaker 1: in deeds Chapter sixteen. Strengthening deficient faculties. What wouldst thou
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Speaker 1: all is thine? The ways are opening for thee. The
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Speaker 1: light of truth doth shine. Then halt, not question, not
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Speaker 1: be still, and assert the eye. Few people are well balanced,
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Speaker 1: well rounded a great. Many have splendid ability in certain lines,
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Speaker 1: good education, fine training, and yet have any deficiency in
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Speaker 1: their make up which cripples the whole life and dwarfs
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Speaker 1: the results of their utmost industry. Many of us have
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Speaker 1: some little contemptible weakness which offsets our strong qualities and
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Speaker 1: ruins their effectiveness. How humiliating it is to be conscious
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Speaker 1: that one has dragged up to maturity some such weakness
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Speaker 1: or deficiency without realizing it, or at least without having
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Speaker 1: it remedied. The deficiency is slight, perhaps, and yet if
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Speaker 1: it cripples life, if it mars achievement, if it is
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Speaker 1: a perpetual humiliation, if it submits us to a thousand
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Speaker 1: embarrassments and keeps us from rising in the world, what
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Speaker 1: a terrible misfortune it is. What a pity to see
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Speaker 1: a giant impossibility tied down by some little contemptible weakness
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Speaker 1: which cripples what might have been a magnificent career. One
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Speaker 1: if parent or teacher would only point out to a
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Speaker 1: child a weakness which perhaps will be fatal if not remedied,
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Speaker 1: and teach it how to guard against it, how to
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Speaker 1: strengthen the defective quality by mental exercise. What a tremendous
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Speaker 1: help it would give to the child, perhaps preserving it
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Speaker 1: from failure. It is pitiable to see a young man
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Speaker 1: bowing to what he calls fate, which he thinks has
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Speaker 1: been fixed by the contour of his brain or in
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Speaker 1: his hereditary tendencies. Why should we drag our weaknesses through
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Speaker 1: life when a little common sense, a little right thinking,
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Speaker 1: and fixing new habits of thought would soon remedy them.
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Speaker 1: If you are conscious of a mental weakness, a deficient faculty,
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Speaker 1: using a little concentration, thinking in the opposite direction, and
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Speaker 1: dwelling upon the perfect faculties or qualities you desire, would
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Speaker 1: soon put you in a normal condition. It is normal
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Speaker 1: thinking that makes the normal life. But if you leave
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Speaker 1: your weak faculties alone, do not exercise them, do not
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Speaker 1: try to enlarge them. How can you expect them ever
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Speaker 1: to become strong. You cannot develop a symmetrical body by
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Speaker 1: simply exercising the arms. The same is true of the
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Speaker 1: mental faculties, those which are not used to deteriorate. If
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Speaker 1: you long for a thing and strive for it with
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Speaker 1: all your might, persistently enough and long enough, you cannot
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Speaker 1: help approximating it. You must get what you wish in
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Speaker 1: some degree. If your call for wisdom is loud enough
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Speaker 1: and persistent enough, you will become wise. If you call
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Speaker 1: for idleness and mere pleasure, you will get them. But
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Speaker 1: you must not expect wisdom while you are struggling for
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Speaker 1: another goal. If you wish health, say health, think health.
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Speaker 1: Hold the picture of yourself in health before your mind,
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Speaker 1: as the sculptor holds that of the statue he is
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Speaker 1: carving from the marble. Hold it persistently, and you will
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Speaker 1: create health. Do you wish relief from poverty, hold the
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Speaker 1: idea of plenty to use, to enjoy, not to hoard,
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Speaker 1: not to oppress, but to bless, and it will as
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Speaker 1: surely come to you as a rose from a bud.
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Speaker 1: Affirm that which you wish, and it will manifest in
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Speaker 1: your life. If, for example, melancholia taking too serious a
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Speaker 1: view of things is your fatal weakness, you can entirely
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Speaker 1: remedy this condition in a little while by perpetually concentrating
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Speaker 1: the thought upon the bright, cheerful, sunny side of things.
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Speaker 1: If you persist in this after a while, you will
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Speaker 1: seldom have a depressing, gloomy thought when you do, fling
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Speaker 1: it out of your mind, thrust it out, as you
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Speaker 1: with the thief from your house. Because a burglar gets
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Speaker 1: into your room, is that any reason why you should
2:38:53
Speaker 1: let him stay there? Fling open the shutters and let
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Speaker 1: in the light, and the gloom will disappear? It is.
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Speaker 1: It's not difficult to do this. But every time you
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Speaker 1: nurse the weakness or harbor the thought that depresses you,
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Speaker 1: you make friends with it and invite it to stay.
2:39:08
Speaker 1: When you dwell upon the dark side of things, then
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Speaker 1: you are encouraging everything which is darkening your life and
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Speaker 1: hampering your career. If you hold persistently in the mind
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Speaker 1: the picture of the normal faculty which corresponds to the
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Speaker 1: one you think is deficient, you will soon bring about
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Speaker 1: the desired results. I wish it were possible to show
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Speaker 1: young people what a tremendous power for good there is
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Speaker 1: informing the habit of stoutly affirming and claiming desired qualities
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Speaker 1: as one's birthright, with all the determination to possess them
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Speaker 1: that can be mustered. The mere assumption of a thing
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Speaker 1: with all our will power and the determination to possess
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Speaker 1: it which knows no retreat, are wonderful helps in achieving
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Speaker 1: the things that we long for. Do not be afraid
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Speaker 1: of claiming and repeating over and over again the qualities
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Speaker 1: you long to attain or the object of your ambition.
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Speaker 1: Keep your desire in the forefront of your thought. Resolve
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Speaker 1: that you will possess these things and will accept nothing else,
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Speaker 1: and you will be surprised to see how rapidly you
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Speaker 1: will make yourself a magnet to draw the things you
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Speaker 1: yearn for. If you long for a beautiful character, claim it,
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Speaker 1: assume it, stick to it with all possible tenacity, and
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Speaker 1: you will not only prepare the mind to receive it,
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Speaker 1: but will also increase the power of the mind to
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Speaker 1: attract it. We all know that, in some way, somehow,
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Speaker 1: most people get the things they long for and struggle
2:40:24
Speaker 1: for persistently, And even if they do not get all
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Speaker 1: that they desire, they approximate much nearer to it, get
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Speaker 1: much more of it than they would if they did
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Speaker 1: not claim it stoutly and struggle for it persistently. We
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Speaker 1: have the ability to change our attractive power, to increase
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Speaker 1: it or diminish it, just in proportion to the intensity
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Speaker 1: of our yearning for it, and assuming it as our birthright.
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Speaker 1: Many people become morbid in dwelling upon the thought that
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Speaker 1: they are peculiar in some respect. Some of these people
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Speaker 1: think that they have inherited certain tendencies or peculiarities from
2:40:55
Speaker 1: their parents, and are always looking for their appearance in themselves.
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Speaker 1: Now this is just the way to make them appear.
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Speaker 1: For what we encourage in the mind or hold their
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Speaker 1: persistently we get. So these people continually increase the evil
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Speaker 1: by worrying about it and dwelling upon its sad effects
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Speaker 1: on themselves. They become sensitive about their idiosyncrasies. They never
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Speaker 1: like to speak of or hear of them, and yet
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Speaker 1: the very consciousness that they possess them takes away their
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Speaker 1: self confidence and mars their achievement. Now, the great majority
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Speaker 1: of these abnormalities and peculiarities are simply imaginary or are
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Speaker 1: exaggerated by imagination. They have been nursed and brooded over
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Speaker 1: as possibilities so long that they become real to the sufferers.
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Speaker 1: The remedy lies in doing precisely the opposite, dwelling on
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Speaker 1: the perfect qualities and ignoring any possible shortcomings. If you
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Speaker 1: think you are peculiar, form the habit of holding the
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Speaker 1: normal thought, say to yourself, I am not peculiar. These
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Speaker 1: seeming idiosyncrasies are not real. I was made in the
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Speaker 1: image of my maker, and a perfect being could not
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Speaker 1: make imperfections. Hence, my imperfections cannot be real. As the
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Speaker 1: truth of my being is real. There can be no
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Speaker 1: abnormalities about me unless I produce them in thought, for
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Speaker 1: the Creator never gave them to me. He never gave
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Speaker 1: me a discordant note, because he is harmony. If by
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Speaker 1: holding this thought persistently in your mind, you forget what
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Speaker 1: seems abnormal to you, it will soon disappear, and you
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Speaker 1: will regain your confidence just by becoming convinced that you
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Speaker 1: are not much unlike other people. Shyness sometimes becomes a disease,
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Speaker 1: but it is a disease of the imagination only, and
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Speaker 1: can be easily overcome by driving the thought of it
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Speaker 1: out of the mind and holding the opposite thought, by
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Speaker 1: just making up your mind that you are not being
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Speaker 1: watched by everybody, that people are too busy about their
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Speaker 1: own selfish aims and ambitions to be watching you. Chapter seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Gain beauty by holding the beauty thought. Every right action
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Speaker 1: and true thought sets the seal of its beauty on
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Speaker 1: person and face. Ruskin. It is perfectly possible for a
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Speaker 1: girl with the homeliest face with the ugliest expression, if
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Speaker 1: she has an honest heart, to make herself beautiful to
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Speaker 1: everyone who knows her, by the perpetual habit of holding
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Speaker 1: in her mind the beauty thought, not the thought of
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Speaker 1: mere superficial beauty, but that of heart beauty, soul beauty.
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Speaker 1: The basis of all real beauty is a kindly helpful
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Speaker 1: heart and a desire to scatter sunshine and good cheer everywhere,
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Speaker 1: And this shining through the face makes it beautiful. The
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Speaker 1: longing in the effort to be beautiful in character cannot
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Speaker 1: fail to make the life beautiful. And since the outward
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Speaker 1: is but an expression of the inward, a mere outpicturing
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Speaker 1: on the body of the habitual thought and dominating motives
2:43:38
Speaker 1: the face, the manners, the bearing, must follow the thought
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Speaker 1: and become sweet and attractive. If you hold the beauty thought,
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Speaker 1: the love thought, persistently in the mind, you will make
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Speaker 1: such an impression of harmony, of sweetness and soul beauty
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Speaker 1: wherever you go that no one will notice any plainness
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Speaker 1: or deformity. You may possess the highest beauty, beauty that
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Speaker 1: is far superior to mere regularity of features is within
2:44:03
Speaker 1: the reach of everybody. I know girl who have dwelt
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Speaker 1: upon what they consider their unfortunate plainness so long that
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Speaker 1: they have seriously exaggerated it. They are not half so
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Speaker 1: plain as they think they are, and were it not
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Speaker 1: for the fact that they have made themselves very sensitive
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Speaker 1: and self conscious about it, others would not notice it
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Speaker 1: at all. In fact, if they could get rid of
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Speaker 1: their sensitiveness and be natural, they could, with persistent effort,
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Speaker 1: make up in sprightliness of thought, in cheerfulness of manner,
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Speaker 1: in intelligence, and in cheery helpfulness what they lack in
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Speaker 1: grace and beauty of face. I have known a girl
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Speaker 1: whose extreme plainness of features and awkwardness of manner so
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Speaker 1: pained her as she approached womanhood that she almost despaired
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Speaker 1: of ever making anything of herself, and even contemplated suicide.
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Speaker 1: She was so convinced that she was a target for
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Speaker 1: cruel remarks, and became so impressed with the conviction that
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Speaker 1: she was not wanted anywhere and that she was continually
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Speaker 1: being insulted, that she resolved to make one supreme effort
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Speaker 1: to redeem herself from her handicap. She resolved that she
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Speaker 1: would make people love her, that she would attract them
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Speaker 1: instead of repelling them, that she would take such an
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Speaker 1: unselfish interest in them that they could not help loving her.
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Speaker 1: She determined to develop those beautiful heart qualities which would
2:45:16
Speaker 1: more than compensate for mere physical beauty. She began to
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Speaker 1: sympathize with people and to take thought of their welfare
2:45:24
Speaker 1: wherever she went. If she saw any one who was
2:45:26
Speaker 1: ill at ease or looked troubled or friendless, she immediately
2:45:30
Speaker 1: took such a deep interest in him that she won
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Speaker 1: his friendship at once. She began to cultivate her mind
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Speaker 1: in every possible way in order to make herself interesting, bright, cheerful,
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Speaker 1: and hopeful. She cultivated optimism, and she was soon surprised
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Speaker 1: to see how the young people who formerly shunned her
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Speaker 1: flocked around her and began to love her. And she
2:45:50
Speaker 1: not only succeeded in compensating for her physical deformity, which
2:45:53
Speaker 1: she thought was fatal to her pleasure and her usefulness,
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Speaker 1: but she also developed a sole beauty that did not
2:45:58
Speaker 1: pass with years, and which was infinitely superior to that
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Speaker 1: beauty which comes from regularity of features and beauty of form.
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Speaker 1: She seemed to radiate good cheer from every pore. So
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Speaker 1: popular did she become that the so called pretty girls
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Speaker 1: envied her. Chapter eighteen. The power of imagination. Imagination precedes
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Speaker 1: and is the cause of all achievement. We owe the
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Speaker 1: improvement of the world, the climb to civilization, largely to
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Speaker 1: the imagination. We should still be living as savages in
2:46:30
Speaker 1: caves and huts, but for those who could imagine and
2:46:32
Speaker 1: were determined to have better things. Indeed, the men and
2:46:36
Speaker 1: women who have rendered the greatest service to the world
2:46:38
Speaker 1: have done so by seeing in their imagination something infinitely
2:46:41
Speaker 1: better than actually existed, and then working to make this real.
2:46:46
Speaker 1: It was because more saw in his imagination a better
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Speaker 1: way of communication than by posts that he was enabled
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Speaker 1: to give the telegraph to the world. It was because
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Speaker 1: Belle could imagine something better even than the telegraph that
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Speaker 1: we have the telephone. It was because feel could see
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Speaker 1: in his imagination a better way of communicating across the
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Speaker 1: ocean than by ship that cognents are tied together with cables.
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Speaker 1: It was because Marconi saw even a better way of
2:47:09
Speaker 1: communicating than anything that had gone before that wuro have
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Speaker 1: the wireless telegraph, which enables a passenger when in mid
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Speaker 1: ocean to engage his hotel room and order a cab
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Speaker 1: to meet the steamer. An unknown Greek sculptor gave us,
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Speaker 1: in a Venus de Milo, a suggestion of possible beauty
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Speaker 1: of proportion and magnificence of pose, up to which the
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Speaker 1: race has not yet measured. But it gave us a
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Speaker 1: model toward which we are still struggling, and toward which
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Speaker 1: the race has made a great advance. What does the
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Speaker 1: world not owe to the magnificent imagination of Michael Angelo, who,
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Speaker 1: in that wonderful Statue of Moses, gave a glimpse of
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Speaker 1: the possible godlike man. It was the imagination of great
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Speaker 1: composers that gave us our masterpieces in music. It was
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Speaker 1: because merchants imagined a hundred kinds of business under one
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Speaker 1: roof that we have great department stores where people can
2:47:57
Speaker 1: buy almost anything they need it. It is because teachers
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Speaker 1: could see in imagination a chance for infinite improvement in
2:48:03
Speaker 1: the human race that we have our schools and our colleges. Indeed,
2:48:08
Speaker 1: what do we not owe to the imagination? The men
2:48:11
Speaker 1: who see things only as they are, who have no imaginations,
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Speaker 1: plod along in the same old ruts. It is the
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Speaker 1: man with imagination that improves things, that advances, that substitutes
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Speaker 1: the palace cars for the stage coach, the ocean greyhound
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Speaker 1: for the sailing ship. It is because our great artists
2:48:29
Speaker 1: saw something better in imagination than actually existed in nature
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Speaker 1: that we have some of our greatest masterpieces. It is
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Speaker 1: not enough to see nature as she is. It is
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Speaker 1: infinitely higher to see her in the imagination as she
2:48:42
Speaker 1: is capable of becoming, to see her possibilities as realities.
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Speaker 1: The average person thinks the imaginative person amounts to nothing.
2:48:51
Speaker 1: He is called a crank. Dreamers are looked upon as
2:48:54
Speaker 1: impractical people, mere theorists. But oftentimes our dreamers have proved
2:48:58
Speaker 1: infinitely more practical than those who have laughed at them.
2:49:01
Speaker 1: For the world's dreamers have given us the most practical
2:49:04
Speaker 1: things we have. The dreamers have ameliorated the hard conditions
2:49:08
Speaker 1: of the race, have lifted us above commonness, and emancipated
2:49:11
Speaker 1: us from drudgery. Oh what does the world not owe
2:49:15
Speaker 1: to its dreamers, to its cranks, to its theorists. Great
2:49:19
Speaker 1: characters have been made possible because men and women saw
2:49:22
Speaker 1: greater men and women in themselves than actually existed. It
2:49:26
Speaker 1: was their struggle to bring out the possible man or
2:49:29
Speaker 1: the possible woman that advanced civilization. It is because fathers
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Speaker 1: and mothers can see in their imagination human beings higher
2:49:36
Speaker 1: than themselves, more perfect and more complete, that they are
2:49:40
Speaker 1: able to lift their children above themselves. The time will
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Speaker 1: come when we shall realize what a tremendous subjective power
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Speaker 1: the imagination has upon life, what a tremendous factor it
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Speaker 1: can be made in education, in forming ideals, in influencing
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Speaker 1: the career, and in promoting health and happiness. The pictures
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Speaker 1: of the mind are not given to mock us or
2:49:59
Speaker 1: to ant entertain us, but to show us that they
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Speaker 1: jay can be made realities, that there is a reality
2:50:04
Speaker 1: that imagines them, that these are but the outlines or
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Speaker 1: the suggestions, the shadows of the realities themselves. They make
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Speaker 1: us real sears of the possible future, and are given
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Speaker 1: us to wet our ambition, to spur us on, to
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Speaker 1: make us dissatisfied with the commonness in which we are living,
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Speaker 1: by giving us glimpses of something infinitely better. We are
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Speaker 1: beginning to see that imagination is not mere fantasy of
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Speaker 1: the brain, but that in it lives the ideal. In
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Speaker 1: it are generated the great models and the potencies which
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Speaker 1: make their realization possible. If the imagination of a child
2:50:36
Speaker 1: can be rightly directed, its future happiness and success can
2:50:40
Speaker 1: be assured. But a perverted imagination may bring misery and gloom.
2:50:43
Speaker 1: Untold the training of the imagination of a child so
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Speaker 1: as to form the habit of producing beautiful pictures instead
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Speaker 1: of hideous ones, perpetually inspiring images instead of demoralizing ones,
2:50:55
Speaker 1: and thus harmony instead of discord, would be of more
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Speaker 1: value to him than to give him a fortune. Chapter nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Don't let the years count. The face cannot betray the
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Speaker 1: years until the mind has given its consent. The mind
2:51:09
Speaker 1: is the sculptor. Say to the years, as I have
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Speaker 1: said to the public quand meme, I shall conquer you.
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Speaker 1: There speaks a spirit that will never grow old, and
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Speaker 1: who that has recently seen Sarah Bernhardt can doubt that
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Speaker 1: as time passes she continues to make good her challenge
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Speaker 1: to the years. Quand Meme at threescore, the great actress
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Speaker 1: is in the prime of her powers and does not
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Speaker 1: look a day over forty. It is not by any
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Speaker 1: particular grace of nature that Madame Bernhardt and many others
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Speaker 1: who are more advanced in years than she retained their youth.
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Speaker 1: But because of their attitude toward the years, they refuse
2:51:44
Speaker 1: to let them count. They have made up their minds
2:51:47
Speaker 1: that they will not grow old in the ordinary sense.
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Speaker 1: Better than the art of growing old gracefully is the
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Speaker 1: secret of not growing old at all, says a writer
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Speaker 1: in the Chicago Journal. It is something worth knowing and
2:51:59
Speaker 1: worthy remembering. The secret is concealed in the fact that
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Speaker 1: men and women are as old as they make themselves
2:52:05
Speaker 1: to be. That implies will power, But what of it?
2:52:10
Speaker 1: The world is governed by will power. Julia Ward how
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Speaker 1: is a splendid example of youthful activity and mental vigor
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Speaker 1: and freshness in old age. So was Maryeth Livermore until
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Speaker 1: her recent death. Henry Gassaway Davis, recently, the octogenarian nominee
2:52:27
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party for the vice presidency, exhibits an
2:52:30
Speaker 1: elasticity and vigor of mind and body that put many
2:52:32
Speaker 1: a man of forty to shame. George Meredith, on the
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Speaker 1: celebration of his seventy fourth birthday, said, I do not
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Speaker 1: feel that I am growing old, either in heart or mind.
2:52:43
Speaker 1: I still look on life with a young man's eye.
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Speaker 1: I have always hoped that I would not grow old
2:52:49
Speaker 1: as some with a palsied intellect, living backward, regarding other
2:52:53
Speaker 1: people as anachronisms, because they themselves have lived on in
2:52:56
Speaker 1: the other time and left their sympathies behind them with
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Speaker 1: their years. When a man becomes wise enough to recognize
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Speaker 1: his own divinity, that he is as indestructible a principle
2:53:05
Speaker 1: as a law of mathematics, that no accident of life,
2:53:09
Speaker 1: no friction, trouble, or difficulty, can touch the divine part
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Speaker 1: of him. And when he recognizes the truth of being,
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Speaker 1: that he is a part of the infinite creative principle,
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Speaker 1: he will not begin to show signs of mental and
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Speaker 1: physical decrepitude when he should be in the prime of
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Speaker 1: all his powers. Age will never succeed in retaining a
2:53:26
Speaker 1: youthful appearance and mentality until people make up their minds
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Speaker 1: not to let the years count, until they cease to
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Speaker 1: make the body old. By constant suggestions of the mind,
2:53:35
Speaker 1: we begin to so see thoughts of age in youth.
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Speaker 1: We look forward to being old at forty five, and
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Speaker 1: to going downhill at fifty. The very act of preparing
2:53:45
Speaker 1: for old age hastens it as Job said, the thing
2:53:49
Speaker 1: I feared most has come upon me. People who prepare
2:53:53
Speaker 1: for a thing and look for it, anticipating, fearing, dreading
2:53:56
Speaker 1: it in their daily lives usually get it. Any person
2:54:00
Speaker 1: continually in fear of something will bear the marks of
2:54:03
Speaker 1: such fear graven in his or her face, says Prentice Molford.
2:54:07
Speaker 1: If you so look forward to such decay of the
2:54:09
Speaker 1: body as a thing that must come, it will come.
2:54:13
Speaker 1: Never for a moment allow yourself to think that you
2:54:15
Speaker 1: are too old to do this or that, for your
2:54:17
Speaker 1: thoughts and convictions will very soon out picture themselves in
2:54:20
Speaker 1: a wrinkled face and a prematurely old expression. There is
2:54:24
Speaker 1: nothing better established than the philosophy that we are what
2:54:27
Speaker 1: we think, and that we become like our thoughts. How
2:54:30
Speaker 1: old are you? Asks the Milwaukee Journal. The adage is
2:54:34
Speaker 1: that women are as old as they look, in men
2:54:36
Speaker 1: as old as they feel. That's wrong. A man and
2:54:41
Speaker 1: a woman are as old as they make themselves to be.
2:54:44
Speaker 1: Growing old is largely a habit of the mind. As
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Speaker 1: a man thinks in his heart, so is he. If
2:54:51
Speaker 1: he begins shortly after middle age to imagine himself growing old,
2:54:55
Speaker 1: he will be old to keep oneself from decrepitude is
2:54:58
Speaker 1: somewhat a matter of will power. The fates are kind
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Speaker 1: to the man who hangs on to life with both hands.
2:55:05
Speaker 1: He who lets go will go. Death is slow to tackle,
2:55:09
Speaker 1: only the tenacious Ponce de Leon searched in the wrong place.
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Speaker 1: For the fountain of youth, It is in oneself. One
2:55:17
Speaker 1: must keep oneself young inside, so that while the outer
2:55:21
Speaker 1: man perishet, the inner man is renewed day by day.
2:55:24
Speaker 1: When the human mind ceases to exert itself, when there
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Speaker 1: is no longer an active interest in the affairs of
2:55:30
Speaker 1: this life, When the human stops reading and thinking and doing,
2:55:33
Speaker 1: the man, like a blasted tree, begins to die at
2:55:36
Speaker 1: the top. You are as old as you think you are.
2:55:40
Speaker 1: Keep the harness on. Your job is not done. Tis
2:55:45
Speaker 1: yet high day, Thy staff resume and fight fresh battle
2:55:48
Speaker 1: for the truth. For what is age but youth's full
2:55:51
Speaker 1: bloom or riper more transcendent youth, sings Oliver Wendelholmes. If
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Speaker 1: you would live long, love your work, and continue doing it.
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Speaker 1: Don't lay it down at fifty because you think your
2:56:03
Speaker 1: powers are on the wane, or that you need a rest,
2:56:06
Speaker 1: take a vacation. Whenever you require it, but don't give
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Speaker 1: up your work. There is life, there is youth in it.
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Speaker 1: I cannot grow old, says a noted actress. Because I
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Speaker 1: love my art. I spend my life absorbed in it.
2:56:21
Speaker 1: I am never bored. How can one have lines of
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Speaker 1: age or weariness or discontent? When one is happy, busy,
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Speaker 1: never fatigued, and one's spirit is ever ever young. When
2:56:34
Speaker 1: I am tired, it is not my soul but just
2:56:36
Speaker 1: my body. Think of Susan B. Anthony, the veteran reformer
2:56:41
Speaker 1: in her eighty third year, and of missus Gilbert, the
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Speaker 1: veteran actress who died on reaching the same age. Who
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Speaker 1: thinks of these splendid workers as old or failing, or
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Speaker 1: left behind by younger competitors. Miss Anthony is as vigorous
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Speaker 1: and full of enthusiasm in her work to day as
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Speaker 1: she was half a century ago. At the International Congress
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Speaker 1: of Women held in Berlin, she was easily the most
2:57:05
Speaker 1: prominent among the representative women of the world gathered there,
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Speaker 1: and one of the most active. Missus Gilbert, long the
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Speaker 1: oldest actress on the stage, in her last season, starred
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Speaker 1: in a new play. These women never thought of laying
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Speaker 1: down their work or of growing old at fifty or sixty,
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Speaker 1: they found the great drama of humanity too interesting to
2:57:25
Speaker 1: give up their parts. One of the finest things about
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Speaker 1: our generation, says Margaret de Land, is an awakening to
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Speaker 1: the fact that age ought to be only a matter
2:57:34
Speaker 1: of the body, a matter of spectacles and stiff joints,
2:57:37
Speaker 1: not of dullness and distaste for living, not of days
2:57:40
Speaker 1: in which we shall say we have no pleasure in them.
2:57:43
Speaker 1: There is a growing belief that this second age can
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Speaker 1: be avoided, nay more, with some high natures. There is
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Speaker 1: even a realization that such age is a confession of sin,
2:57:52
Speaker 1: a confession that life has been selfish, narrow, unimaginative, and
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Speaker 1: without living ideals. Such age is shame. Little by little,
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Speaker 1: this belief is growing in human creatures. The sentiment is
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Speaker 1: expressed in these verses by Frank M. Vansell. Never grow old.
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Speaker 1: Time's furrowed lines of pain, of sorrow and of tears
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Speaker 1: must leave their impress wide and deep on the face
2:58:18
Speaker 1: of declining years. But the gentle spirit, fraught with love,
2:58:22
Speaker 1: bright deeds of happiness unfold, grows brighter, lovelier with age,
2:58:27
Speaker 1: more winsome still grows. Never old, we do not count
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Speaker 1: a man's years, said Emerson, until he has nothing else
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Speaker 1: to count. It is not the years that age us
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Speaker 1: so much as the use we make of them and
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Speaker 1: the way we live them. Excesses of any kind are
2:58:42
Speaker 1: fatal to longevity or the prolongation of youth. Bitter memories
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Speaker 1: of a sinful life which has gone all wrong, make
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Speaker 1: premature furrows in the face, take the brightness from the
2:58:52
Speaker 1: eyes and the elasticity from the step, and make one's
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Speaker 1: life sapless and uninteresting. The Bible teaches that a clean life, life,
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Speaker 1: a pure life, a simple life, and a useful life
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Speaker 1: shall be long. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's.
2:59:08
Speaker 1: He shall return to the days of his youth. It
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Speaker 1: is the useless complexities in which vanity and unworthy ambition
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Speaker 1: entangle us that were away life and make so many
2:59:17
Speaker 1: Americans owed men and women. At forty the simple life
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Speaker 1: can be the fullest, noblest, and most useful. Reverend Charles
2:59:26
Speaker 1: Wagner says that a simple life and a strenuous life
2:59:28
Speaker 1: are not inconsistent, as a peaceful life and a vigorous
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Speaker 1: life are not. In his little book The Simple Life,
2:59:35
Speaker 1: he shows most effectively how our needless complexities of thought
2:59:39
Speaker 1: and feeling cause us to waste energies that should be
2:59:41
Speaker 1: concentrated on useful ends. He emphasizes the fact that by
2:59:45
Speaker 1: our worrying and vexation of spirit, we rob ourselves a
2:59:48
Speaker 1: vigor that, rightly employed, would accomplish valuable results. In this
2:59:53
Speaker 1: age of rush, hurry, and tumbling over each other. Thousands
2:59:57
Speaker 1: imagine it is necessary to be doing something all one's waking,
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Speaker 1: or we will say, business ours to attain success. Leisure
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Speaker 1: is almost a sin. This is a great mistake, says
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Speaker 1: Prentice Molford. Thousands on thousands are so doing all the time.
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Speaker 1: What does their doing amount to a pittance, a bare subsistence?
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Speaker 1: And why? Because there is no discretion as to what
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Speaker 1: the person's force is put upon. One woman wears her
3:00:26
Speaker 1: body out at forty and polishing stoves, scrubbing tinware, and
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Speaker 1: in hundreds of other little jobs. Her mind is all
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Speaker 1: absorbed in these details. Another one sits quietly and an
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Speaker 1: idea comes to her, whereby all this work may be
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Speaker 1: accomplished without any physical effort on her part, and by
3:00:43
Speaker 1: those who can do nothing else, she is the more
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Speaker 1: likely to preserve her health and vigor. Health and vigor
3:00:50
Speaker 1: are the belongings of a relatively perfect maturity that is
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Speaker 1: even more attractive than what is generally called youth. It
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Speaker 1: is a great aid to the preservation of youth and
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Speaker 1: vigor to be able to sit still and keep still
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Speaker 1: in mind as well as in body, when there is
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Speaker 1: really nothing to do, because in such condition, mind and
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Speaker 1: body are recuperating and filling up with new force. The
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Speaker 1: body is not fed with material food alone. There are
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Speaker 1: other elements, now little recognized, which act upon it and
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Speaker 1: give it strength. And the grand source and means of
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Speaker 1: receiving these lie partly in that mental and physical quietude
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Speaker 1: of mind, which acts only when it has full power
3:01:25
Speaker 1: to act. If then wisdom guides action, either by brain
3:01:30
Speaker 1: or hand, a great deal more is accomplished, and a
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Speaker 1: balance of life's forces is kept in reserve. Few people
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Speaker 1: realize also that the day processes, unless checked, still go
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Speaker 1: on while we sleep. If you have been running worry thoughts,
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Speaker 1: fretting thoughts, anxious thoughts, pessimistic thoughts, hard, jealous, envious, greedy
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Speaker 1: thoughts through your mind during the day, you may be
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Speaker 1: sure that these will run their deadly course in the
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Speaker 1: brain far into the night, furrowing their tracks deeper and
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Speaker 1: deeper in the nervous tissue, exhausting nerve, force and vitality,
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Speaker 1: and that they will outpicture themselves in the face by
3:02:04
Speaker 1: deepening the lines, by making more prominent and permanent the wrinkles.
3:02:09
Speaker 1: Many people are so constituted that the moment they are
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Speaker 1: free from absorbing duties, their troubles and trials flock into
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Speaker 1: their minds and fill their imaginations with hideous pictures, robbing
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Speaker 1: them of all joy and spontaneity and happiness. The moment
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Speaker 1: they lie down at night, their minds begin to work
3:02:25
Speaker 1: to their injury. Their imaginations magnify the dark pictures, the
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Speaker 1: disagreeable experiences, and they toss upon their beds until they
3:02:34
Speaker 1: go to sleep from sheer exhaustion. In this unhappy frame
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Speaker 1: of mind, is it any wonder that they age rapidly,
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Speaker 1: that they get up in the morning tired and exhausted,
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Speaker 1: that they have to resort to all sorts of artificial
3:02:45
Speaker 1: sedatives to make them sleep, that they are always taking
3:02:48
Speaker 1: tonics or stimulants to keep themselves in condition to work.
3:02:52
Speaker 1: We shall some time learn that the mind is its
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Speaker 1: own tonic when we know how to use it, that
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Speaker 1: it is its own best stimulant, that when we live normally,
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Speaker 1: we shall not need narcotics or drugs of any kind.
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Speaker 1: That the mind will be its own best protector, its
3:03:05
Speaker 1: own rejuvenator. It is only a question of holding the
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Speaker 1: mind right, of holding the harmonious thought, the cheerful thought,
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Speaker 1: the helpful thought, the love thought. And while these dominate
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Speaker 1: the mind, the enemy thoughts, which tear down and destroy
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Speaker 1: cannot enter. We should be able to shut off all
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Speaker 1: the daily processes which grind out the life, and which
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Speaker 1: exhaust the nerve force and the brain energy. And the
3:03:28
Speaker 1: moment we quit our business, we should begin to build up,
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Speaker 1: to recuperate for the next day, to fill up the
3:03:33
Speaker 1: cask again for the next demand. I know a few
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Speaker 1: people who have learned the supreme art of preparing for
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Speaker 1: a sweet, peaceful, RESTful, refreshing sleep by reversing the brain
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Speaker 1: processes which have perplexed them and bothered them during the day.
3:03:47
Speaker 1: They have learned the secret of shutting out all their troubles, trials,
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Speaker 1: and perplexities, of locking them in the store or office
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Speaker 1: or factory. When they turn the key at night. They
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Speaker 1: never drag their business troubles home. They consider themselves at
3:04:01
Speaker 1: play from the moment they leave work until they get
3:04:04
Speaker 1: back again. Nothing can induce them to be bothered or
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Speaker 1: bored with anything relating to business. They have learned the
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Speaker 1: secret and power of the harmonious thought, the happy thought,
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Speaker 1: the cheerful, optimistic thought. They prepare their minds for a serene,
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Speaker 1: harmonious nights sleep by summoning thoughts of joy, youth, peace,
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Speaker 1: and love to be their mind guests for the night,
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Speaker 1: and will entertain no others. They will not allow the old,
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Speaker 1: worry thought and anxious thought to drag their hideous images
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Speaker 1: through the brain, to spoil their rest, and to leave
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Speaker 1: ugly autographs in the face. The result is that they
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Speaker 1: get up in the morning refreshed, rejuvenated with all the
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Speaker 1: spontaneity of their youth. We grow old because we do
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Speaker 1: not know enough to keep young, just as we become
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Speaker 1: sick and diseased because we do not know enough to
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Speaker 1: keep well. Sickness is a result of ignorance and wrong thinking.
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Speaker 1: The time will come when a man will no more
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Speaker 1: harbor thoughts that will make him sick or weak. Then
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Speaker 1: he would think of putting his hands into the fire.
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Speaker 1: No man can be ill if he always has right
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Speaker 1: thoughts and takes ordinary care of his body. If he
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Speaker 1: will think only useful thoughts, he can maintain his youth
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Speaker 1: far beyond the usual period. Never smother the impulse to
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Speaker 1: act in a youthful manner because you think you are
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Speaker 1: too old. Recently, at a family gathering, the boys were
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Speaker 1: trying to get their father passed sixty, to play with them. Oh,
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Speaker 1: go away, go away, he said, I am too old
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Speaker 1: for that. But the mother entered into their sports, apparently
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Speaker 1: with just as much enthusiasm and real delight as if
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Speaker 1: she were only their age. The youthful spirit shone in
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Speaker 1: her eyes and manifested itself in every movement. Her frolic
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Speaker 1: with the boys explains why she looks so much younger
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Speaker 1: than her husband in spite of the very slight difference
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Speaker 1: in their years. Be always as young as you feel,
3:05:54
Speaker 1: and keep young by associating with young people and taking
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Speaker 1: an interest in their interests, hopes, plan and amusements. The
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Speaker 1: vitality of youth is contagious. When questioned as to the
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Speaker 1: secret of his marvelous youthfulness in his eighties year, Oliver
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Speaker 1: Wendelholmes replied that it was due chiefly to a cheerful
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Speaker 1: disposition and invariable contentment. In every period of my life
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Speaker 1: with what I was, I never felt the pangs of ambition, discontent,
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Speaker 1: and disquietude that make us grow old prematurely by carving
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Speaker 1: wrinkles in our faces. Wrinkles do not appear on faces
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Speaker 1: that have constantly smiled. Smiling is the best possible massage.
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Speaker 1: Contentment is the fountain of youth. We need to practice
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Speaker 1: the contentment extalled by the genial doctor, which is not
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Speaker 1: the contentment of inertness, but the freeing of ourselves from
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Speaker 1: entangling vanities, petty cares, worries, and anxieties which hamper us
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Speaker 1: in our real life work. The sort of ambition he
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Speaker 1: condemns is that in which egotism and vanity figure most conspicuously,
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Speaker 1: and in which notoriety, the praise and admiration of the world, wealth,
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Speaker 1: and personal aggrandizement are the objects sought, rather than the
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Speaker 1: power to be of use in the world, to be
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Speaker 1: a leader in the service of humanity, and to be
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Speaker 1: the noblest, best and most efficient worker that one can be.
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Speaker 1: If you would be young when old, adopt the Sundial's motto,
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Speaker 1: I record none but the hours of sunshine, Never mind
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Speaker 1: the dark or shadowed hours. Forget the unpleasant, unhappy days,
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Speaker 1: remember only the days of rich experiences. Let the others
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Speaker 1: drop into oblivion. It is said that long livers are
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Speaker 1: great hopers. If you keep your hope bright in spite
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Speaker 1: of discouragements, and meet all difficulties with a cheerful face,
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Speaker 1: it will be very difficult for age to trace its
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Speaker 1: furrows on your brow. There is longevity in cheerfulness. Don't
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Speaker 1: let go of love or love of romance. They are
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Speaker 1: amulets against wrinkles. If the mind is constantly bathed in
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Speaker 1: love and filled with helpful, charitable sentiments toward all, the
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Speaker 1: body will keep fresh and vigorous many years longer than
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Speaker 1: it will if the heart is dried up and emptied
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Speaker 1: of human sympathy by a greedy life. The heart that
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Speaker 1: is kept warm by love is never frozen by age
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Speaker 1: or chilled by prejudice, fear, or anxious thought. A French
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Speaker 1: beauty used to have herself massaged with mutton tallow every
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Speaker 1: night in order to keep her muscles elastic in her
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Speaker 1: body supple. A better way of preserving youthful elasticity is
3:08:23
Speaker 1: coming into vogue, massaging the mind with love thoughts beauty thoughts,
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Speaker 1: cheerful thoughts, and young ideals. If you do not want
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Speaker 1: the years to count, look forward instead of backward, and
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Speaker 1: put as much variety and as many interests into your
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Speaker 1: life as possible. Monotony and tack of mental occupation are
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Speaker 1: great age producers. Women who live in cities in the
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Speaker 1: midst of many interests and great variety preserve their youth
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Speaker 1: and good looks, as a rule, much longer than women
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Speaker 1: who live in remote country places, who get no variety
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Speaker 1: into their lives, and who have no interests outside of
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Speaker 1: their narrow daily round of monotonous duties which require no
3:09:01
Speaker 1: exercise of mind. Insanity is an alarmingly increasing result of
3:09:05
Speaker 1: monotony of women's lives on the farm. Ellen Terry and
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Speaker 1: Sarah Bernhardt, who seemed to have the ageless brightness of
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Speaker 1: the stars, attribute their youthfulness to action, change of thought
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Speaker 1: and scene, and mental occupation. It is worth noting, too
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Speaker 1: that farmers who live so much outdoors and in an
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Speaker 1: environment much more healthful than that of the average brain worker,
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Speaker 1: do not live so long as the latter. Indeed, a
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Speaker 1: physician testifying in the London Law Court stated that softening
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Speaker 1: of the brain was a common malady of the rural
3:09:36
Speaker 1: laborers of England. Their brains, he said, rather rusted out
3:09:40
Speaker 1: from lack of brain exercise than wore out, and at
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Speaker 1: an age from sixty five to seventy five, they usually
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Speaker 1: died of apoplexy or some similar disease. In contrast to
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Speaker 1: the farmers, he cited judges and similar hard brain workers
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Speaker 1: who lived much longer and kept their mental powers. When
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Speaker 1: solon the Athenians age was asked the secret of his
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Speaker 1: strength and youth, he replied that it was learning something
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Speaker 1: new every day. This belief was general among the ancient
3:10:08
Speaker 1: Greeks that the secret of eternal youth is to be
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Speaker 1: always learning something new. There is the basis of a
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Speaker 1: great truth in the idea. It is healthful activity that
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Speaker 1: strengthens and preserves the mind as well as the body,
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Speaker 1: and gives it youthful quickness and activity. So if you
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Speaker 1: would be young in spite of the years, you must
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Speaker 1: remain receptive to new thought, and must grow broader in spirit,
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Speaker 1: wider in sympathy, and more and more open to fresh
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Speaker 1: revelations of truth as you travel farther on the road
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Speaker 1: of life. But the greatest conqueror of age is a cheerful, hopeful,
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Speaker 1: loving spirit. A man who would conquer the years must
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Speaker 1: have charity for all. He must avoid worry, envy, malice,
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Speaker 1: and jealousy, all the small meannesses that feed bitterness in
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Speaker 1: the heart, trace wrinkles on the brow, and dim the eye.
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Speaker 1: A pure heart, a sound body, and a broad, healthy,
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Speaker 1: generous mind, backed by a determination not to let the
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Speaker 1: years count, constitute a fountain of youth, which everyone may
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Speaker 1: find in himself. Here, then, says Margaret de Land, are
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Speaker 1: the three deadly symptoms of old age selfishness, stagnation, intolerance.
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Speaker 1: If we find them in ourselves, we may know we
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Speaker 1: are growing old, even if we are on the merry
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Speaker 1: side of thirty. But happily we have three defenses which
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Speaker 1: are invulnerable. If we use them, we shall die young
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Speaker 1: if we live to be a hundred. They are sympathy, progress, tolerance.
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Speaker 1: The men are women who have these divine qualities of sympathy, progress,
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Speaker 1: and tolerance are forever young. Their very existence cries out
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Speaker 1: to the rest of us, says some Corda. The best
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Speaker 1: is yet to be the last of life, for which
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Speaker 1: the first was made. Chapter twenty, How to control thought,
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Speaker 1: ordain for thyself? Forth with a certain form and type
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Speaker 1: of conduct, which which thou shalt maintain, both alone and
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Speaker 1: when it may chance among men. Epictetus, it is possible
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Speaker 1: to change the character of the mind by habitually controlling
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Speaker 1: the thought. There is no reason why we should allow
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Speaker 1: the mind to wander into all sorts of fields and
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Speaker 1: to dwell upon all sorts of subjects at random. The ego,
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Speaker 1: the will, power, or what we call the real self,
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Speaker 1: the governor of the mind, can dominate the thought. With
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Speaker 1: a little practice, we can control and concentrate the mind
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Speaker 1: in any reasonable way we please. Attention. Therefore, controlled by
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Speaker 1: the will and directed by reason and higher judgment, can
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Speaker 1: so discipline the mind and thought that they will dwell
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Speaker 1: on higher ideals. Until high thinking has become a habit.
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Speaker 1: Then the lower ideals and lower thinking will drop out
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Speaker 1: of consciousness, and the mind will be left upon a
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Speaker 1: higher plane. It is only a question of discipline. Many
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Speaker 1: and varied are the methods prescribed by various writers for
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Speaker 1: gaining desired thoughts control. But on comparing them, there is
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Speaker 1: after all much in common, and that is the simplest
3:13:05
Speaker 1: and most practical part. The more elaborate formulae and mysticism
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Speaker 1: may be left to those who enjoy such exercises. It
3:13:12
Speaker 1: is not possible to give explicit directions for an American
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Speaker 1: substitute for Hindu Yoga practice, says W. J. Colville, as
3:13:20
Speaker 1: the general needs of the Anglo Saxon race are not
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Speaker 1: the same outwardly as those of their dark skinned Oriental brethren.
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Speaker 1: But the great words concentration and meditation are just as
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Speaker 1: forceful and full of meaning in the West as in
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Speaker 1: the East. To concentrate on one's beloved goal, to see
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Speaker 1: before the mental eye the prize as though it were
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Speaker 1: already won, while we are all the while intensely conscious
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Speaker 1: of moving nearer to its externalization. Is so to place
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Speaker 1: ourselves in relation with all that helps us on our way,
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Speaker 1: that one by one obstacle's vanish and what seemed once
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Speaker 1: too hard for human strength to accomplish, appears now plain
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Speaker 1: and even simple. The greatest need of all is to
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Speaker 1: keep the goal in sight, and not let interest flag
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Speaker 1: or inward vision. Waver. A good lesson for all to
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Speaker 1: practice is to take some special aspiration into the silence,
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Speaker 1: and there realize its fulfillment with all the intensity of
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Speaker 1: your visualistic ability. See yourself in the very place in
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Speaker 1: which you most desire to be engaged in the very
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Speaker 1: work you would love best to accomplish. A little persistent
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Speaker 1: industry in this exercise will soon relieve the intellect of
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Speaker 1: worry and gradually open up the understanding to perceive how
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Speaker 1: to accomplish the otherwise unaccomplishable. There is no substitute for
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Speaker 1: work in all the universe. Therefore, let none imagine that
3:14:32
Speaker 1: a state of inoperative, dreamy contemplation is one to be recommended.
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Speaker 1: Outward work must follow inward contemplation. True meditation does not
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Speaker 1: absolve us from the need of making effort, but it
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Speaker 1: is a means for revealing to us what efforts we
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Speaker 1: need to make and how to make them something. The
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Speaker 1: same process is recommended by a writer who says, go
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Speaker 1: into the silence, concentrate your mind, polarize thought, Breathe in
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Speaker 1: the power and strength that is ever within the reach
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Speaker 1: of all, and in unless limited supply, from which nothing
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Speaker 1: but our own action or rejection can cut us off.
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Speaker 1: The atmosphere about us is a product of thought. Thought
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Speaker 1: makes it what it is, and thought alone can change
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Speaker 1: it when it will, says Floyd B. Wilson in Paths
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Speaker 1: to Power, The atmosphere that marks strong individuality is universally
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Speaker 1: conceded to be the product of the invisible emanation of
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Speaker 1: thoughts centered on an idea. Your atmosphere, being a product
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Speaker 1: of thought, must receive all its power and force through
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Speaker 1: the creative energy that gives it existence. Our proposition as
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Speaker 1: to control, therefore now reduces itself to this. If we
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Speaker 1: know ourselves masters of our mental apparatus, we know we
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Speaker 1: can control our thoughts and thus dictate our atmosphere. If
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Speaker 1: in silence daily we hold ourselves passive, receptive for the
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Speaker 1: particular good we most desire, we open the way for
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Speaker 1: the creation of the atmosphere that is sought. One must
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Speaker 1: come to these sittings as nearly passive as possible, but
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Speaker 1: above all free from doubt. To many, it will be
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Speaker 1: found serious work to learn to hold themselves passive. The
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Speaker 1: moments spent in this way will do more to advance
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Speaker 1: you to the end than any other thing you can do.
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Speaker 1: Speaking more especially of the means of controlling the thought
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Speaker 1: for the benefit of the body, Charles Brodie Patterson says,
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Speaker 1: let us keep the mind clear and bright, fill it
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Speaker 1: with wholesome thoughts of life, and be kindly in our
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Speaker 1: feelings toward others. Let us have no fear of anything,
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Speaker 1: but realize that we are one with universal power, that
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Speaker 1: power which can supply our every need, That health, strength,
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Speaker 1: and happiness are a legitimate birthright, that they are ever
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Speaker 1: potential in our inner lives, and that our bodies may
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Speaker 1: express them. Now. If we take this mental attitude and
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Speaker 1: adhere steadfastly to it, the body will very soon manifest
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Speaker 1: health and strength. In the light of these various directions
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Speaker 1: from those who have drawn them from the experience of
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Speaker 1: themselves and of others, it does not seem so difficult
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Speaker 1: for one to raise his standard of living very materially
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Speaker 1: by forcing into his thoughts the higher and forcing out
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Speaker 1: the lower. If you surround yourself with a positive atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: that is, if you keep all negatives, all destroyers, all
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Speaker 1: thoughts that suggest discord, disease, disaster, and failure out of
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Speaker 1: your mind, and hold their only those words and thoughts
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Speaker 1: which create, which upbuild, you will very soon change the
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Speaker 1: character of your entire mind, so that you will loath
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Speaker 1: the enemies of your success and happiness, and will thrust
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Speaker 1: them out of your mind the moment they attempt to enter.
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Speaker 1: You will harbor only noble words and thoughts, those which encourage,
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Speaker 1: which bring light and beauty, which inspire, and ennoble, and
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Speaker 1: you will welcome these as eagerly as you shun the others.
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Speaker 1: It is encouraging, too, that thinkers and investigators have traced
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Speaker 1: the origin of our thought enemies back to their sources,
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Speaker 1: and have thus reduced their number. It is not necessary
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Speaker 1: to engage in battle the small army of lesser passions,
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Speaker 1: says Horace Fletcher. If you concentrate your efforts against anger
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Speaker 1: and worry, for they are all children of these parents.
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Speaker 1: Oppose them with a bold hunt, Make one heroic stand
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Speaker 1: against them, and they and all their children will fly,
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Speaker 1: disown them once, and the ability to read up them
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Speaker 1: will have disappeared with them. In a later book, mister
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Speaker 1: Fletcher calls anger and worry only forms of fear and
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Speaker 1: w w Atkinson also says worry is the child of
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Speaker 1: fear and bears a strong family resemblance to its parent.
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Speaker 1: Treat the fear family as you would any other kind
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Speaker 1: of vermin. Get rid of the old ones before they
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Speaker 1: have a chance to have progeny. So once we gain
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Speaker 1: the power of concentration, we must cultivate perfect fearlessness and
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Speaker 1: confidence with which go cheerfulness, efficiency, and as a sure result,
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Speaker 1: happiness and prosperity. The following rules in Power of Will
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Speaker 1: by Frank C. Haddock are practical and suggestive, and may
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Speaker 1: well close this chapter. Resolutely, persistently, and intelligently maintain a
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Speaker 1: true and psychic field by constant exercise of strong will
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Speaker 1: power toward all high realities, beautif objects, right ideas, health, peace, truth, success, altruism,
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Speaker 1: right minded persons, the best literature, art, science, the noblest
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Speaker 1: movements and institutions of the times, and a true religion.
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Speaker 1: In contact with other people, maintain in your personal atmosphere
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Speaker 1: of perfect and constant calm. Let this be so complete
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Speaker 1: that it may not betray the effort to secure it,
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Speaker 1: either in disturbed ether waves or in movements which the
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Speaker 1: other person's subconsciousness will recognize as coolness or suppressed hostility.
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Speaker 1: Avoid all excitement, send out no antagonisms, reveal to the
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Speaker 1: inner consciousness of other people, nothing in your mind calculated
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Speaker 1: to injure their feelings. Banish from your field all feelings
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Speaker 1: of contempt and ridicule. Permit no vibrations of anger or
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Speaker 1: irritation to escape into your field. Banish absolutely all thought
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Speaker 1: waves of fear for persons with whom you are dealing,
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Speaker 1: banish all thought waves of dist trust as to success
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Speaker 1: with such persons. Asterisks maintain a personal atmosphere that is
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Speaker 1: surcharged with the dynamic force of confident expectancy. Chapter twenty one.
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Speaker 1: The coming man will realize his divinity. All the mysteries
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Speaker 1: are cleared away, sad solved. As we come into oneness
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Speaker 1: with the blessed One and begin to know, begin to
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Speaker 1: be omniscient. Many omniscient men will soon walk the earth.
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Speaker 1: Omniscience and freedom are the goal of all, and in
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Speaker 1: this great age of Light, many egos are approaching the
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Speaker 1: blessed omniscient state. He who sees God in all feels
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Speaker 1: the ecstatic and blissful thrill of the infinite presence that
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Speaker 1: cannot be described. How beautiful is the universe to him
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Speaker 1: who is at one with God and knows the Planner
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Speaker 1: and the plan The blissful prophet, happy, contented, successful career
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Speaker 1: must flow from a well balanced, symmetrical mind, which has
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Speaker 1: a sense of absolute security and unquestioned faith in the
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Speaker 1: Great Creator, the providing and sustaining power. A sense of
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Speaker 1: uns uncertainty, of uneasiness, a lack of poise, of equilibrium
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Speaker 1: in the life is fatal to high success. We must
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Speaker 1: think deeply enough into the nature of things to get
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Speaker 1: rid of uncertainties. We must be rooted in the truth
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Speaker 1: of being and feel an unwavering faith that we are
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Speaker 1: a part of the great mind which creates and governs
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Speaker 1: all things. There is a sense of certainty, of absolute
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Speaker 1: security when we know that nothing can wrench us out
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Speaker 1: of our orbit, that no accident on land or sea,
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Speaker 1: no disease or discord, can separate us from our union
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Speaker 1: with that great power. Once having this security, fear departs.
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Speaker 1: Uncertainty and anxiety leave us, and all the faculties work
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Speaker 1: in harmony. When we know that nothing can cheat us
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Speaker 1: out of our birthright, that nothing can mar our real achievement,
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Speaker 1: that every right step must lead to ultimate triumph, that
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Speaker 1: every right act, that every germ of goodness will ultimately
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Speaker 1: struggle into flower and fruitage, we can serenely accomplish the
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Speaker 1: highest that lies in our power. There is something in
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Speaker 1: our very consciousness which tells us that we are not
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Speaker 1: mere products of chance. We feel that there is a
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Speaker 1: certainty somewhere that fear anxiety and uncertainty are not a
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Speaker 1: necessary part of life. There is an instinct within us
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Speaker 1: which tells us that we are inseparable from the one
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Speaker 1: great Mind, that we are one with it or reflection
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Speaker 1: of it, that we were created in its image, and
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Speaker 1: that our ultimate purpose cannot conflict with its ultimate purpose.
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Speaker 1: We instinctively feel that there must be a unity in
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Speaker 1: all things. Could we but find it? And the best
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Speaker 1: way to find it is to trust this great power.
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Speaker 1: Implicit faith will do more for us than reasoning, and
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Speaker 1: will bring us infinitely closer to this unity. These verses
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Speaker 1: by ellow Wheeler Wilcox urge such exercise of faith. Trust
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Speaker 1: in thine own untried capacity, as thou wouldst trust in
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Speaker 1: God himself. Thy soul is but an emanation from the whole.
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Speaker 1: Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee vast
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Speaker 1: and unfathomed, as the grandest see thy silent mind. Over
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Speaker 1: diamond caves may roll, go seek them, But let pilot
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Speaker 1: will control those passions which thy favoring winds can be.
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Speaker 1: No man shall place a limit to thy strength. Such
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Speaker 1: triumphs as no mortal ever gained, may yet he thine,
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Speaker 1: if thou wilt but believe in thy Creator and in thyself.
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Speaker 1: At length some feet will tread all heights now unattained.
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Speaker 1: Why not thine own press on achieve? Achieve? When we
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Speaker 1: once touch power, when we once feel the thrill of
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Speaker 1: the great central force which comes from the heart of
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Speaker 1: truth of being, we shall no longer doubt, no longer hesitate,
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Speaker 1: no longer be satisfied with the superficial, the temporary, the material.
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Speaker 1: When the soul once tastes its native food, once feels
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Speaker 1: the thrill of the infinite pulse, it no longer is
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Speaker 1: content to grovel. When a man realizes that he is divine,
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Speaker 1: when he sees that he is a part of the
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Speaker 1: everlasting principle, which is the very essence of reality, nothing
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Speaker 1: can throw him off his physical or mental balance. He
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Speaker 1: is centered in the everlasting truth, entrenched their an infinite power,
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Speaker 1: from the taint of fear or anxiety, or worry or accident,
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Speaker 1: because he is conscious that he is principled himself, a
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Speaker 1: part of the eternal verity. The feeling that he is
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Speaker 1: in touch with the power which made and upholds the universe,
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Speaker 1: that nothing can wrench him from this divine presence gives
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Speaker 1: a sense of security and peace. When Lie awakens in
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Speaker 1: the morning, refreshed and rejuvenated, he feels that he has
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Speaker 1: been in touch with the divinity that created him, that
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Speaker 1: he has passed the borderland of sense and has come
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Speaker 1: into the presence of an infinite power, an infinite life,
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Speaker 1: that he has been created anew. And hence, when he
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Speaker 1: is tired and weary and sad, how he longs to
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Speaker 1: get back to this divine presence, to be made over
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Speaker 1: to quench his thirst at the great fountain head of life.
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Speaker 1: Man will never attain his highest power until he learns
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Speaker 1: that his principle is as indestructible, as impossible of harm.
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Speaker 1: As the laws of mathematics suppose all the mathematical books
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Speaker 1: in when the world were destroyed by fire, two and
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Speaker 1: two would still make four. The principle itself would not
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Speaker 1: be in the least affected. So when the real man
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Speaker 1: arrives at his dominion, he will not in the least
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Speaker 1: be disturbed by anything that may happen. He will maintain
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Speaker 1: his equanimity, his mental poise, through all sorts of disaster
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Speaker 1: without a tremor. The Creator has not made a mistake.
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Speaker 1: His highest creation is not placed at the mercy of chance,
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Speaker 1: or accident. Serenity of spirit poise of mind is one
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Speaker 1: of the last lessons of culture, and comes from a
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Speaker 1: perfect trust in the all controlling force of the universe.
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Speaker 1: The moment man realizes that he is a part of
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Speaker 1: a great cause, that he is made to dominate and
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Speaker 1: not to be dominated, he will rise to meet every
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Speaker 1: situation in a masterly instead of in a cringing manner.
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Speaker 1: When he comes to the full realization of his divinity,
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Speaker 1: he will not be thrown from his base, nor will
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Speaker 1: his peace be disturbed in the least by the vexatious
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Speaker 1: happenings which trouble those who have not risen to their dominion,
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Speaker 1: or who have not yet learned the secret of power.
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Speaker 1: It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm,
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Speaker 1: says Swami Vivenandy. It is easy to be active. Let
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Speaker 1: the reins go and the horses will drag you down.
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Speaker 1: Anyone can do that. But he who can stop the
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Speaker 1: plunging horses is the strong man, which requires the greater
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Speaker 1: strength letting go or restraining. The calm man is not
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Speaker 1: the man who is dull. You must not mistake calmness
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Speaker 1: for dullness or laziness. Activity is the manifestation of the
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Speaker 1: lower strength, calmness of the superior strength. What of panics,
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Speaker 1: or fires or financial losses to do with the well
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Speaker 1: balanced man whom God made? Suppose I should lose my property?
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Speaker 1: What if my ships, my stores, and my houses should
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Speaker 1: burn up? What has that really to do with me?
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Speaker 1: It is true, it may inconvenience me somewhat, and it
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Speaker 1: may take some temporary power from my hand. But I
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Speaker 1: cannot believe that an all wise creator has put my
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Speaker 1: real self at the mercy of a panic, a fire,
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Speaker 1: or any such emergency. Some people can so thoroughly impregnate
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Speaker 1: themselves with thoughts of health, harmony, joy, gladness, and peace
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Speaker 1: that accidents, misfortunes, and discordant moods cannot touch them. I
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Speaker 1: do not believe that the coming man, the ideal man,
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Speaker 1: the man of the highest civilization, would be any more
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Speaker 1: affected by a fire which destroyed his property than the
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Speaker 1: laws of harmony would be affected by the burning tip
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Speaker 1: of all the musical instruments in the world. The coming
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Speaker 1: man will be so much master of his thought that
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Speaker 1: he will be able to make himself one great magnet
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Speaker 1: for attracting only those things which will add to his
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Speaker 1: prosperity and enhance his happiness. He will be able to
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Speaker 1: keep his body in perfect harmony by harboring only the
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Speaker 1: health thought, and knowing how to exclude the diseased thought,
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Speaker 1: the sickly thought. The coming man will always be cheerful,
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Speaker 1: because he will entertain only the thoughts which produce happiness.
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Speaker 1: He will not allow the clouds of worry or anxiety,
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Speaker 1: or the darkness of melancholy, the blackness of jealousy and envy,
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Speaker 1: to enter his mind. He will never mourn, but will
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Speaker 1: always rejoice. The coming man will no more allow the
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Speaker 1: poisonous thoughts of pessimism, of disease, of wretchedness of discord
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Speaker 1: to enter his mind than he would take poisonous drugs
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Speaker 1: into his stomach. He will be as able to control
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Speaker 1: the kind and quality of his thoughts as he is
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Speaker 1: able to control the character of the guests he entertains
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Speaker 1: in his home. He will invite only those he wants,
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Speaker 1: only those whose influence he craves, and will exclude the
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Speaker 1: enemy thoughts. The coming man will not have the word
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Speaker 1: can't in his vocabulary, for he will not have any
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Speaker 1: doubt in his mind. The coming man will not know fear,
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Speaker 1: which is now the greatest enemy of the human race,
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Speaker 1: for he will not harbor the fear thought, which really
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Speaker 1: results from a feeling of inefficiency or inability to cope
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Speaker 1: with the exigencies which may arise. The coming man will
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Speaker 1: always be prosperous because he will not allow the poverty thought,
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Speaker 1: the limitation thought, to enter backslash his mind. He will
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Speaker 1: always hold thoughts of prosperity and abundance. The coming man
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Speaker 1: will live in an atmosphere of love and joyousness, for
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Speaker 1: he himself will always feel and express love and joy.
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Speaker 1: He will be healthy because soul and mind and body
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Speaker 1: will be in that harmony which is perfect health. Is
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Speaker 1: it worth nothing to be able to think one's self
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Speaker 1: out of discord into harmony, out of darkness into light,
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Speaker 1: out of hatred into love, out of disease into health?
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Speaker 1: Is it worth nothing to be able to rise into
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Speaker 1: one's dominion, to reign as a sovereign instead of groveling
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Speaker 1: as an abject slave. Such an attainment is worthy of
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Speaker 1: the highest aspiration and the greatest effort. What it may
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Speaker 1: mean to an individual is beautifully expressed by Ralph Waldo Trine.
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Speaker 1: With this awakening and realization one is brought at once
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Speaker 1: in rapport with the universe. He feels the power and
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Speaker 1: the thrill of life universal. He goes out from his
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Speaker 1: own little garden spot and mingles with the great universe
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Speaker 1: and the little perplexities, trials, and difficulties of life that
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Speaker 1: today so vex and annoy him. Fall away of their
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Speaker 1: own accord by reason of their vary insignificance. The intuitions
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Speaker 1: become keener and unerring in their guidance. There comes more
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Speaker 1: and more the power of reading men, so that no
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Speaker 1: harm can come from this source. There comes more and
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Speaker 1: more the power of seeing into the future, so that
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Speaker 1: more and more true becomes the old adage that coming
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Speaker 1: events cast their shadows before health. In time takes the
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Speaker 1: place of disease. For all disease and its consequence suffering,
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Speaker 1: is merely the result of the violation of law, whether
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Speaker 1: consciously or unconsciously. There comes a spiritual power, which, as
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Speaker 1: it is sent out, is adequate for the healing of others.
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Speaker 1: The same as in the days of old. The body
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Speaker 1: becomes less gross and heavy, finer in its texture and form,
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Speaker 1: so that it serves far better and responds more readily
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Speaker 1: to the higher impulses of the soul. Matter itself in
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Speaker 1: time responds to the action of these higher forces, and
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Speaker 1: many things that we are accustomed, by reason of our
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Speaker 1: limited vision to call miraculous or supernatural, become the normal,
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Speaker 1: the natural, the every day. The man who keeps his
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Speaker 1: thoughts in his life trending upward, will in every emergency
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Speaker 1: find the forces of nature and of his fellow men
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Speaker 1: rushing to aid him. According to the law to him
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Speaker 1: that hath shall be given. And because like produces like,
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Speaker 1: the more one has of the success thought, the happiness thought,
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Speaker 1: the good will thought, the more powerful will be the
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Speaker 1: attraction for kindred things. Thus all good things shall be
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Speaker 1: added unto him, and he shall become perfect, even as
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Speaker 1: your father, which is in heaven, is perfect,