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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

fervent, for therein lies your best hope of making the world appreciate your efforts.

Exactly what you are thinking and feeling about your task will affect all those who see it.

If you are mechanical and phlegmatic, working like a machine, and wishing your task over, do not expect to stir the world with what you achieve, however perfect may be your technique.

If you are devoid of enthusiasm, know that those who look upon the finished result will be likewise.

I knew a man who wrote sentences which were like perfect mosaics, so beautifully rounded and exquisite were they.

His great desire was to become a novelist. When his novel appeared it was a beautiful piece of literature, yet it failed to interest the public. Speaking of it, the man said he had driven himself to finish the book after losing all interest in the characters. Often he kept away from his work for weeks, forgetting his characters, and being obliged to read the work over to pick up the lost thread, and then fairly hating the book.

It was small wonder it failed.

This man was an essayist. He had loved to write brief and brilliant articles which could be finished at a sitting.

When he attempted to write a novel he went outside of his true sphere, and the interest and enthusiasm which characterize his other work were lacking.

Inspiration and enthusiasm, however, are frequently waiting close by for the call of the artist or artisan in any work. It is an erroneous idea to imagine they must come first and impel to action. Whatever

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