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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

explained their tardy arrival at home, and at places of business, as due to the procession in front of them. This same man had begun life in the rear car. He had been a poor child on a Western prairie, without influence, and with meager opportunities for education.

Yet, by this inborn trait, this determination to watch his opportunities and push ahead, he obtained an education and a desirable position in life before middle age --- obtained it through his own efforts.

Many of his old comrades are living in the same meager environment of early youth, believing they were hindered by fate from attaining success.

They regard the good fortune of their old acquaintance as a stroke of luck.

"He was born to be lucky," they will tell you.

"Things naturally went his way."

But they went his way merely because he watched his chance and slipped ahead when the opening came.

These chances come to every one of us along the highway of life. If we are not on the lookout the line closes up before we see the open space.

Every day I live I perceive more and more clearly how the real success of life comes from within and not from without.

An intense, unswerving, fixed purpose, dominates all conditions. The mind which concentrates itself upon the one idea, I must do this thing, does it eventually, no matter what obstacles intervene.

The mind which says, "The procession is so long ahead of me it is useless for me to try to hurry; I must just jog along"--that is the mind which never gets beyond the jogging pace. The procession is always ahead.

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