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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


We choose our unseen companions as we choose our earthly associates, and by the company we keep are we known here and beyond.

Were I the mother of a marriageable daughter should hesitate to see her become the wife of a man noted primarily for his economy. The influence of a man upon a woman in matters concerning money is far-reaching and subtle; I have known a woman of financial independence and generous proclivities to become utterly transformed by marriage with a man whose one idea of life was the accumulation of money.

And let this mania take root in a nature and it renders it impervious even to the fear of ridicule and scorn of associates; for such a man believes always that in the long run his money will make him a power and bring him the respect he is forfeiting by his petty meannesses along the way.

But that is an error which he either discovers too late or else remains in ignorance of to the end, which is sadder still.

The man or woman who waits until fortune is won to be generous in small matters remains a miser to the end of life. Generosity is a plant which does not grow in a night. It needs cultivating, guiding and pruning. Then its flowers are beautiful --- its fruits precious.

No fabled fall of Adam
Can chain you to the sod;
You are the child of glory,
The messenger of God.

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