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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 Shading of the Picture

ELBERT HUBBARD quotes and reiterates the saying of John Wesley that he never had a mood of despondency which lasted more than a half hour in all his life.

While I am an advocate of optimism as the foundation of happiness, success, health and usefulness, yet I believe there is great spiritual growth found at times in a season of despondency and self-analysis.

It is in such hours that we take mental stock, that we view ourselves under the searchlight, and that we discover how closely we resemble the "other people," those "others" who have been the subject of our criticisms and our aversions, perhaps. It is when we feel "blue" that we understand many racial weaknesses and faults, and we come closer to all erring and suffering humanity. As the skies are more beautiful sometimes seen through a rainbow, so humanity is more beautiful seen through our tears.

It would have been better for the world had John Wesley indulged in a few moods of such enlightening despondency. One such season might have taught him the inconsistency of his belief in hellfire and brimstone as godly means of punishment. He would have realized how wholly self-made is each hell.

The man who remains alway and forever satisfied and cheerful, is dangerously near becoming an egotist. He is so certain that he is all right that he is sure everybody else is all wrong.

It requires a touch of shadow to make a perfect picture.

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