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