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AS A MAN THINKETH JAMES ALLEN
652 not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain :
653 "Ask and receive."
654 Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
655 Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your
656 Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
657 The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.
658 The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in
659 the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams
660 are the seedlings of realities.
661 Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not
662 long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach
663 it. You cannot travel within and stand still without. Here is
664 a youth hard pressed by poverty and labor; confined long
665 hours in an unhealthy workshop; unschooled, and lacking all
666 the arts of refinement. But he dreams of better things; he
667 thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty. He
668 conceives of, mentally builds up, an ideal condition of life; the
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