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He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but a looking glass.

James Allen

Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
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Deep Habit Hide Imagination Man Secret
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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Choice Himself Inspiration Limitation Person
He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.
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Freedom Himself Oppression Weakness
The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Divine End Ourselves
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
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
So you will be what you will to be.
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Be Yourself One Liner
Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.
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Discover Experience Man Philosophy
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
The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.
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Accomplishment Effort Joy Life Reward
Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.
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Beautiful Heart Music Yourself
Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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Deep Life Pain
What you are, so is your world.
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One Liner Spiritual World Yourself
The world is your kaleidoscope.
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Perspective Science World Yourself
The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
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Spiritual Suffering
Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
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Life Man Material Transformation

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but a looking glass.

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