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his health, but it illustrates this principle, that you cannot scatter your mental powers over too many mere wishes. You must "climb from hope to hope and realize your longings," by holding them as mental images and letting them materialize. Can you realize your desire? Yes. This lesson tells you how. Will you pay the price?. Is it worth your endeavor Will it give you satisfaction How many of the illusions and play things in your life will you give up for it? You cannot have every little whim gratified, and then have some great desire satisfied also. Put your powder into Fourth of July explosions and your energy into social dissipation and you will have no power for defense, and no energy for the battle. "Why do I fail " so many ask me. Here is your answer: --- Dissipation of your energies by the satisfying of mere whims, in the dream born of temporary wants; by mental pyrotechnics; by living under ignoble motives, sacrificing to superficial social pleasures or directed by low aims. Concentrate upon something worth while and then stick. You will then win and the result in the treasury of Eternity is Character. It is the sticking that counts.

Hence this is your Affirmation- I am persevering. I never fail.

Memorize these glorious lines of Emerson and never doubt your ability again:

Laurel crowns cleave to deserts,
And power to him who power exerts.
Hast not thy share On winged feet
Lo! it flyeth thee to meet.
All that nature made thine own,
Floating in air or pent in stone,
Will rive the hills, and swim the sea,
And like thy shadow follow thee.