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New Thought Common Sense

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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

Ignore Misfortune

MOST of us have passed through the unpleasant experience of making a visit to the dentist, for the purpose of discovering the cause, and cure, of a toothache.

When the dentist placed his merciless instruments on the sore tooth, and assured us it must be extracted, or filled, which meant more pain for us, we have groaned in spirit and dreaded the ordeal; but few of us have been so weak and illogical as to heap anathemas on the dentist for telling us unpleasant facts.

Hundreds of people approach friends with their troubles and misfortunes, asking some helpful suggestion, and if they are told that the cause of their unhappiness lies in themselves, and are advised to remove it, they become angry and accuse the truthful friend of lack of sympathy.

A talented and brilliant woman of mature years has for a decade and a half applied to a friend yearly for counsel, sympathy and influence.

The friend has listened and given such suggestions as possible to the lady, always realizing that her own restless nature and lack of concentration lay at the bottom of her troubles.

First, it was an unsympathetic and incompatible husband, who caused the lady trouble. There was a lack of means, which the wife tried to supply, and her many failures in various business ventures she always laid at the door of the erratic and unappreciative husband.

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