Quote #3

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. So you will be, what you 'will' to be. Let failure find its false content, In that poor word 'environment,' But spirit scorns it and is free.

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  1. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
  2. The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can work away at any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.
  3. 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, Bri…
  4. Be not impatient and delay, But wait, as one who understands. When spirit rises and commands, The gods are ready to obey.
  5. The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins a…
  6. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.
  7. He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
  8. Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness t…

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