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Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.

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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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Achievement Animal Dream Greatness Reality Time
All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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Achievement Failure Man Result
Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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Deep Life Pain
The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Divine End Ourselves
As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
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Be Yourself Heart Man Thinking
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Character Fate
The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
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Accomplishment Failure Heart Man
Every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought.
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Act Hide Man
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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Control Power Strength
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
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Doubt Failure Fear Himself
Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
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Action Life Philosophy Spiritual
He no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
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Act Character Right Virtue
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
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Goodness Spiritual
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
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Character Himself Man Thinking
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
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Beginning Failure Strong Success Thinking
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.
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Improvement Man Mental

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