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AS A MAN THINKETH JAMES ALLEN
630 world is beautiful because they have lived; without them,
631 laboring humanity would perish.
632 He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart,
633 will one day realize it. Columbus cherished a vision of
634 another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the
635 vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he
636 revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of
637 stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.
638 Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music
639 that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind,
640 the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of
641 them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly
642 environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your
643 world will at last be built.
644 To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. Shall man's
645 basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and
646 his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is
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