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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.

James Allen

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
All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.
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Evil Spiritual
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
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Body Express Mind Slave
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.
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Deep Improvement Man Willing
When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
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Desire Food Man
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
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Action Goodness Result Thoughts
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but a looking glass.
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Himself Thinking
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
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
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
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
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.
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Improvement Man Mental
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
The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
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Hate Love Man Thinking
The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Divine End Ourselves
The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and purity of intention, they attract to their person solely positive outcomes.
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Character Fate Person Strength True 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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