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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


there is a worthy element in his nature which calls for something better.

The fact that he should want to visit the old scene now and then, is not an indication that he is sick of home, or that he is wandering from the fold again.

If the pasture is sweet, and the shepherdess kind and wise, the sheep will not wander far.

If you have married a man who has been overfond of the fair sex, and if he is kind and true and loving, do not stand forever upon the alert, lest he become disloyal to you.

Constant surveillance never yet kept a man true.

It has made many a man unfaithful.

Although your husband may have told you over and over, that you are tenfold more pleasing to him than any woman he ever knew before he met you, that does not signify that he might not like to sit by some other at a dinner party, or dance with some other at a cotillion. It does not signify that he would not enjoy talking with others, whom he regards less highly than you.

In the association with the women he does not love, a man often most appreciates the woman he does love. Should he take a seat by some other woman and converse with her in your presence, do not act sulky, distrait or injured.

That only makes you ridiculous and unlovable. Although your innocence and unworldliness won your husband from the paths of folly, those qualities will not keep him at your side, unless you mingle common sense and tact with them.

It is easy for many woman to be brilliant, and it is easy for others to be good. But it seems the most difficult thing in the world for a woman to be sensible.

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