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