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Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

James Allen

A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.
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Future Man Mindset Run Wild
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
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Himself Hurt Man Philosophy Suffering
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
He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
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Accomplishment Greatness Himself Inspirational Sacrifice Success
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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Choice Himself Inspiration Limitation Person
As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss
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Happiness Learning Man Suffering
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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Action Failure Man Result
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
As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
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Be Yourself Heart Man Thinking
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.
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Deep Improvement Man Willing
He must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
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Avoid Death Poison
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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Himself Secret Thinking
A man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
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Fate Life Man Philosophy World
The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Divine End Ourselves
The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.
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Death Human Inspirational Soul Willing
Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
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Doubt Enemy Fear Himself Knowledge

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

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Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

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