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Every Thought Which Enters The Mind, Every Word We Utter, Every Deed We Perform, Makes Its Impression Upon The Inmost Fiber Of Our Being And The Result Of These Impressions Is Our Character. The Study Of Books, Of Music, Or Of The Fine Arts Is Not Essential To A Lofty Character. It Rests With The Worker Whether A Rude Piece Of Marble Shall Be Squared Into A Horse-block Or Carved Into An Apollo, A Psyche, Or A Venus Di Milo. It Is Yours, If You Choose, To Develop A Spiritual Form More Beautiful Than Any Of These, Instinct With Immortal Life, Refulgent With All The Glory Of Character.

We Do Not Know What We Can Bear Until We Are Put To The Test. Many A Delicate Mother, Who Thought That She Could Not Survive The Death Of Her Children, Has Lived To Bury Her Husband And The Last One Of A Large Family, And In Addition To All This Has Seen Her Home And Last Dollar Swept Away; Yet She Has Had The Courage To Bear It All And To Go On As Before. When The Need Comes, There Is A Power Deep Within Us That Answers The Call.

The Greatest Advantage Of Books Does Not Always Come From What We Remember Of Them, But From Their Suggestiveness, Their Character-building Power.

Self-control Is The Very Essence Of Character. To Be Able To Look A Man Straight In The Eye, Calmly And Deliberately, Without The Slightest Ruffle Of Temper Under Extreme Provocation, Gives A Sense Of Power Which Nothing Else Can Give. To Feel That You Are Always, Not Sometimes, Master Of Yourself, Gives A Dignity And Strength To Character, Buttresses It, Supports It On Every Side, As Nothing Else Can. This Is The Culmination Of Thought Mastery.

There Is No Law By Which One Can, As Long As He Thinks He Can't.