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AS A MAN THINKETH JAMES ALLEN
589 Intellectual achievements are the result of thought
590 consecrated to the search for knowledge, or for the beautiful
591 and true in life and nature. Such achievements may be
592 sometimes connected with vanity and ambition but they are
593 not the outcome of those characteristics; they are the natural
594 outgrowth of long and arduous effort, and of pure and
595 unselfish thoughts.
596 Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy
597 aspirations. He who lives constantly in the conception of
598 noble and lofty thoughts, who dwells upon all that is pure and
599 unselfish, will, as surely as the sun reaches its zenith and the
600 moon its full, become wise and noble in character, and rise
601 into a position of influence and blessedness.
602 Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, the
603 diadem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution,
604 purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought, a man
605 ascends; by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity,
606 corruption, and confusion of thought a man descends.
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