aspirations and a sincere desire for a higher and better condition, so
far as advantages, facilities, associates, or any surroundings or
environments are concerned, and if he continually send out his highest
thought forces for the realization of these desires, and continually
water these forces with firm expectation as to their fulfillment, he
will sooner or later find himself in the realization of these desires,
and all in accordance with natural laws and forces.

We are born to be neither slaves nor beggars, but to dominion and to
plenty. This is our rightful heritage, if we will but recognize and lay
claim to it.

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One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.

_Robert Browning_

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Will is the steady directing power: it is concentration. It is the pilot
which, after the vessel is started by the mighty force within, puts it
on its right course and keeps it true to that course.

Will is the sun-glass which so concentrates and so focuses the sun's
rays that they quickly burn a hole through the paper that is held before