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AS A MAN THINKETH JAMES ALLEN
571 adopt serious responsibilities. He is not fit to act
572 independently and stand alone. But he is limited only by the
573 thoughts which he chooses.
574 There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice,
575 and a man's worldly success will be in the measure that he
576 sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind
577 on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his
578 resolution and self reliance. And the higher he lifts his
579 thoughts, the more manly, upright, and righteous he
580 becomes, the greater will be his success, the more blessed and
581 enduring will be his achievements.
582 The universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest, the
583 vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes
584 appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the
585 virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this
586 in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to
587 persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting
588 up his thoughts.
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