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The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

James Allen

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
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Goodness Greatness Man Power
Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
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Action Character Fate
So you will be what you will to be.
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Be Yourself One Liner
He that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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Himself Seek
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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Himself Thinking
The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Divine End Ourselves
If you would protect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
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Body Health Mind Protection Yourself
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
The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.
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Beautiful Mindset Result Wisdom
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Deep Himself Man Philosophy
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
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Goodness Spiritual
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.
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Deep Improvement Man Willing
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 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
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
Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows.
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Healing Hide Human Hurt Power Sacrifice
To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.
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Desire Inspirational One Liner
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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Himself Secret Thinking
He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.
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Character Generous Poor Satisfaction
If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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Desire Goodness Moment Reality Yourself
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.
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Direction Philosophy Spiritual Suffering Wrong
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
Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
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Action Life Philosophy Spiritual
As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss
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Happiness Learning Man Suffering
Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
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Deep Ideas Yourself
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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Inspirational Success True Yourself

The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

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