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AS A MAN THINKETH JAMES ALLEN
687 And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the
688 idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture
689 of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you
690 secretly most love. Into your hands will be placed the exact
691 results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you
692 earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment
693 may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your
694 Vision, your Ideal. You will become as small as your
695 controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration: in
696 the beautiful words of Stanton Kirkham Davis, "You may be
697 keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the
698 door that for so long has seemed to you the barrier of your
699 ideals, and shall find yourself before an audience - the pen
700 still behind your ear, the ink stains on your fingers - and then
701 and there shall pour out the torrent of your inspiration. You
702 may be driving sheep, and you shall wander to the city -
703 bucolic and open mouthed; shall wander under the intrepid
704 guidance of the spirit into the studio of the master, and after
705 a time he shall say, 'I have nothing more to teach you.' And
706 now you have become the master, who did so recently dream
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