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The Miracle of Right Thought

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The Divinity of Desire - Success and Happiness Are for You - Working for One Thing and Expecting Something Else - Expect Great Things of Yourself - Self-Encouragement by Self-Suggestion - The Crime of the "Blues" - Change the Thought, Change the Man - The Paralysis of Fear - One With the Divine - Getting in Tune - The Great Within - A New Way of Bringing Up Children - Training for Longevity - As a Man Thinketh - Mental Self-Thought Poisoning - Contents -

from drudgery, — due to inventions and laborsaving devices, — more prosperity, saner, more optimistic philosophy, better sanitary conditions and more scientific living have all combined to prolong the average length of life many years. Already the life insurance tables recognize this fact.

Achievement of some kind seems essential to a long life. We were made to do things. Nothing, except dissipation, is so destructive of the youthful in man as idleness. "A man is not old while he is doing things, and if he is not doing anything he is dead."

Industry conduces to longevity. It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest; — the still pool, not the running brook, that stagnates. Honest, earnest endeavor tends to health of body and mind.

The unused faculties in our brain and other parts of the body age much more rapidly than those that are perpetually exercised. To retain our youth, we must keep alive all over.

To pile up insignificant years is not really living. When the years cease to count in growth, in enlargement, in usefulness, then we merely exist; we do not live. Some people walk about the earth a quarter of a century after they are practically dead, just as some

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