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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


value, no real worth, unless harnessed to concentrated effort.

Intense, optimistic thought is a mental dynamite, and blasts an opening through impassable rocks. But of what use is that opening unless we push through and proceed along the way?

And, first of all, must come the consciousness and the acknowledgment of the rock --- the realization of the necessity for mental dynamite. That is true optimism, and that is the true optimist who says: "This rock is formidable; it will require all my force to open a way through it, but I can and I will." And he does open a way.

The world to-day is full of the self-styled optimists --- people who smile in the face of difficulty and say, blandly: "There is no rock, no obstacle. The way will open, if I wait. I need not disturb myself." But the way does not open for such optimists, because the purpose of creation is that every atom shall work out its own individual destiny by individual effort. Until it does work it out, it must be cast under the wheels of Life and ground into the clay over which shall pass the feet of Progress.

The optimistic housewife looks on her tarnished silver and says: "It is bright underneath; I am going to prove it." And she sets herself the task of scouring off the discolorations.

She who simply asserts that the silver is bright and shining, and continues to use it in its dull and mottled state, waiting for some miracle to transform it, is making herself ridiculous and spoiling the silver by neglect.

Verdigris will work. Optimism should.

Many a man believes he is an optimist, when he is only a drone in Nature's Hive.

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