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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

Death removed the husband; but the lady found much sorrow left. Her children were either at home, causing her disappointment and anxiety, or away from home, causing her loneliness.

She went abroad, and made every exertion to come home; but in a few months she felt there was no happiness for her save by going back over seas. Again she returned, and each time she sought a new occupation.

And always she approached her friend for influence and advice.

Finally the friend decided to tell her the truth, and to impress upon her mind the necessity of changing her habit of thought, as a preliminary to a change of luck.

And now the lady feels her friend has been cruel, hard and unsympathetic. "I asked for bread, but you gave me a stone," is her cry.

But her friend is merely the truthful dentist. Never once in all these years has the woman been heard to speak a word of thankfulness regarding any event in her life.

She envied other people their good luck, and bemoaned her own misfortunes continually.

This state of mind will bring ill luck to any one who indulges it.

Just so long as you sit down and enumerate your troubles, your troubles will multiply.

Just as soon as you begin to be thankful for anything, other things will be given you for which to offer thanks.

The very first step up and away from misfortunes, is when a human soul takes upon itself the entire blame for what has occurred, and says: "Somehow

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