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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

It means a loss of strength to be frowsy, ugly and ill-dressed. There is no economy, or sense, or reason in it.

Ugliness breaks a divine law.

It is worth the time given to its accomplishment when a human being produces the effect of beauty and charm to the casual eye.

The love of beauty is inherent in every soul.

It is founded on a great law --- the law of cause and effect. Whoever is born into life possessed of beauty, lived in some former incarnation a beautiful life.

We are all the result of our former lives. Our bodies are the concentrated results of former actions. Nothing proves this more conclusively than the fact that many deformed and ugly people are monuments of goodness and virtue. They exhausted their viciousness and outlived their follies in another life, and passed out, repentant, and awakened to the knowledge of their mistakes.

Nevertheless, they are obliged to carry through this incarnation the physical expression of their former deeds, viz: ugliness or deformity. But while here it is right and commendable that they should make every effort to return to the olden beautiful appearance.

Beauty is harmony. Harmony is truth. To violate truth means a discord, and discord produces ugliness.

Seek for beauty in all things.

Make yourself as beautiful as possible in this life, first by beautiful thoughts, beautiful desires, beautiful actions; next by care of the body, cleanliness, neatness, order and proper dressing.

Only in that way can you reach your fullest development and usefulness.

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