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The Science of Being Great

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Any Person May Become Great - Heredity & Opportunity - The Source of Power - The Mind of God - Preparation - Social Point of View - Individual Point of View - Consecration - Identification - Idealization - Realization - Hurry & Habit - Thought - Action at Home - Action Abroad - Some Further Explanations - More About Thought - Jesus' Idea of Greatness - A View of Evolution - Serving God - A Mental Exercise - Summary of the Science of Being Great - About The Author - Contents -

If you are not in an environment where there is scope for your best powers and talents you can move in due time: but meanwhile you can be great where you are. Lincoln was as great when he was a backwoods lawyer as when he was President: as a backwoods lawyer he did common things in a great way, and that made him President. Had he waited until he reached Washington to begin to be great, he would have remained unknown. You are not made great by the location in which you happen to be. nor by the things with which you may surround yourself. You are not nude great by what you receive from others, and you can never manifest greatness so long as you depend on others. You will manifest greatness only when you begin to stand alone. Dismiss all thought of reliance on externals, whether things, books, or people. As Emerson said, "Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare." Shakespeare will be made by the thinking of Shakespearean thoughts.

Never mind how the people around you, including those of your own household, may treat you. That has nothing at all to do with your being great; that is, it cannot hinder you from being great. People may

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