William Atkinson (1901) In these days of toxin and antitoxins —of poison in sausages, oysters, canned beef, ice cream—of antitoxin serums (that often are more deadly than the original toxin) for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever, tetanus, bubonic plague, diphtheria, and the rest of the list, it requires courage to call […]
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Are you unhappy? Stop and ask yourself why. If you have a great sorrow, time will be your consoler. And there is an ennobling and enriching effect of sorrow well borne. It is the education of the soul. But if you are unhappy over petty worries and trials, you are wearing yourself to no avail;
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In a little hamlet in the mountains at the head of Lake Champlain some years ago I stumbled upon a primitive mill. The power was furnished by a horse that walked with heavy foot up an inclined plane on a slatted, continuously revolving belt. This belt was kept moving downward at precisely the same speed
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By Elizabeth Towne. One day it suddenly flashed across my mind that I AM THE SUN of God! That was to me a glorious idea that took possession of me and literally transformed me by the renewing of my mind. That is a little trick idea have – give them a lodging and they will
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Among the schools of the new thought there appears a division of opinion as to the practicability of the famous counsel of the Man of Nazareth. “ I say unto you that ye resist not evil.” Many writers emphasize “Resist not” — and demonstrate its power by overcoming much evil in the forms of sin
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Fenwicke Holmes (1927) Success involves interest in what one is doing. If you are not interested in your work, find out the reason at once. If it is not your kind of work, change as soon as possible. If it is your kind, then “snap into it” mentally. Interest means pleasure, keenness, alertness. It begets
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An Italian laborer in Los Angeles spent twenty years digging sewers. During that time he carried suspended about his neck a bag containing “a good luck stone,” a little red thing he had picked up. One day a glint of color caught the eye of an onlooker. The bag was opened and “the little red
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I have a letter from an “orthodox Christian,” who says the only hope for humanity lies in the “old-fashioned religion.” Then he proceeds to tell me how carefully he has studied human nature, “in business, in social life, and in himself,” and that he finds it all vile—selfish—sinful. Of course he does, because he studies
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To many people there is nothing which so retards their progress in science as worry. They strive and struggle, and after vainly fretting, because they worry, say: well, I give it up, I must worry, I cannot see how I am over to be placid with so many household cares, etc., etc.; and to these,
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In that wonderful moving picture, “The Thief of Baghdad,” we were told in letters of light that happiness must be earned! It is earned through perfect control of the emotional nature.There can be no happiness where there is fear, apprehension or dread. With perfect faith in God comes a feeling of security and happiness. When
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