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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


The Power of Personality

WHATEVER your mission in life, do not ignore the fact that your personality and your personal appearance have a great influence on your success or failure.

It is useless to quote the cases of repulsive men and women, badly attired, unkempt and unwashed, who have achieved glory and fame and obtained power over men and circumstances. There may be such cases; but it requires transcendental genius, and hypnotic power, to produce such results with such conditions.

Very plain, even ugly people, often possess an attractive personality. But they are well groomed and well dressed.

It is not physical beauty of a classical type that is under discussion, as a necessary factor in success. It is a well-cared-for body, and decent and tastefully worn clothing.

There is nothing gained by a reformer, when he appeals to the minds and hearts of people with an impassioned appeal for humanity, and offends their eyes with uncombed hair and disorderly dress.

A woman who gave her life to the helping of the oppressed, used to lose half her influence by appearing before audiences attired in a slip-shod manner, and with locks of straggling, unkempt hair.

However much she might have objected to fashion, yet she should have been large enough in her understanding of human nature, to realize that the eye is one

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