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AS A MAN THINKETH JAMES ALLEN
128 That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows
129 who has for any length of time practiced self-control and self-
130 purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his
131 circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental
132 condition. So true is this that when a man earnestly applies
133 himself to remedy the defects in his character, and makes
134 swift and marked progress, he passes rapidly through a
135 succession of vicissitudes.
136 The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it
137 loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its
138 cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened
139 desires; and circumstances are the means by which the soul
140 receives its own.
141 Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and
142 to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or
143 later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and
144 circumstances. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts
145 bad fruit.
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