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81 " Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection. "
― James Allen
82 " He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it. "
― James Allen , As a Man Thinketh
83 " When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. "
84 " Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible andmaterial things. Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment ofcircumstance. "
85 " Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. "
86 " Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. "
87 " Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; "
88 " Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance. "
89 " To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully. "
90 " So you will be... What you 'will' to be "
91 " One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves. "
92 " Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. "
93 " The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. "
94 " Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and you can find every truth connected with your being, if you will dig deep into the mine of your soul. "
― James Allen , As You Think
95 " Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass. "
96 " Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harbouring of grovelling thoughts. "
97 " To have suffered so much in a certain direction that the suffering is finished, and only its particular wisdom remains, enables one, wherever that suffering presents itself, to understand and deal with it by pure sympathy; and when one has been "perfected by suffering" in many directions, he becomes a centre of rest and healing for the sorrowing and broken hearted who are afflicted with the affections which he has experienced and conquered. "
― James Allen , Eight Pillars of Prosperity
98 " The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, "
99 " As a man thinketh in his heart so is he, "
100 " ...he who delights in work will not long remain unemployed. "
