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588 persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting
589 up his thoughts.
590 Intellectual achievements are the result of thought
591 consecrated to the search for knowledge, or for the beautiful
592 and true in life and nature. Such achievements may be
593 sometimes connected with vanity and ambition but they are
594 not the outcome of those characteristics; they are the natural
595 outgrowth of long and arduous effort, and of pure and
596 unselfish thoughts.
597 Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy
598 aspirations. He who lives constantly in the conception of
599 noble and lofty thoughts, who dwells upon all that is pure and
600 unselfish, will, as surely as the sun reaches its zenith and the
601 moon its full, become wise and noble in character, and rise
602 into a position of influence and blessedness.
603 Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, the
604 diadem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution,
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