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647 his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is
648 not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain :
649 "Ask and receive."
650 Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
651 Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your
652 Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
653 The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.
654 The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in
655 the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams
656 are the seedlings of realities.
657 Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not
658 long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach
659 it. You cannot travel within and stand still without. Here is
660 a youth hard pressed by poverty and labor; confined long
661 hours in an unhealthy workshop; unschooled, and lacking all
662 the arts of refinement. But he dreams of better things; he
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