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197 can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart
198 is set. This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even
199 the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be
200 prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can
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.
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