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A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

James Allen

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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Control Power Strength
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful.
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Enjoyment Growth Heart Music Vision
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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Attraction Man Philosophy
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 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
As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss
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Happiness Learning Man Suffering
They who have no central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings.
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Easy Fear Life Purpose Worry
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
Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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Deep Life Pain
He must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
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Avoid Death Poison
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Deep Himself Man Philosophy
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
So you will be what you will to be.
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Be Yourself One Liner
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
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Attraction Fear Love Secret Soul
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
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

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