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AS A MAN THINKETH JAMES ALLEN
200 accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would
201 realize a strong and well-poised life?
202 Here is a man who is wretchedly poor. He is extremely
203 anxious that his surroundings and home comforts should be
204 improved, yet all the time he shirks his work, and considers
205 he is justified in trying to deceive his employer on the ground
206 of the insufficiency of his wages. Such a man does not
207 understand the simplest rudiments of those principles which
208 are the basis of true prosperity, and is not only totally unfitted
209 to rise out of his wretchedness, but is actually attracting to
210 himself a still deeper wretchedness by dwelling in, and acting
211 out, indolent, deceptive, and unmanly thoughts.
212 Here is a rich man who is the victim of a painful and
213 persistent disease as the result of gluttony. He is willing to
214 give large sums of money to get rid of it, but he will not
215 sacrifice his gluttonous desires. He wants to gratify his taste
216 for rich and unnatural viands and have his health as well.
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