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

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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
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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Control Power Strength
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Character Fate
Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
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Action Character Fate
Self-control is strength, Right Thought is mastery, Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, Peace, be still.
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Control Heart Peace Power
There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.
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Philosophy Quality Thinking
He that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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Himself Seek
As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss
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Happiness Learning Man Suffering
He must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
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Avoid Death Poison
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
All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.
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Evil Spiritual
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
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Dream Philosophy Save World
A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
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Deep Direction Man
Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
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Destruction Himself Vice
Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Intelligence Purpose
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

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

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