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James Lane Allen

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Personal byline in the 1901 Thoughts anthology. Basic source-backed attribution identity; lifetime and independent authorship verification not established here.

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Historical source references

Complete signed selection 153; printed byline: James Lane Allen; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
Complete signed selection 218; printed byline: James Lane Allen; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

Archive entries

01Undated

Few causes age the body faster than wilful indolence and monotony of mind—the mind, that very principle of physical youthfulness.

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02Undated

All high happiness has in it some element of love; all love contains a desire for peace. One immediate effect of new happiness is to make us turn toward the past with a wish to straighten out its difficulties, heal its breaches and forgive its wrongs.

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03Undated

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.

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04Undated

Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

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05Undated

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

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06Undated

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

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07Undated

You are the one who must choose your place.

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08Undated

A man is literally what he thinks.

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09Undated

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

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10Undated

As you think you travel and as you love you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

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11Undated

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

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12Undated

In all human affairs there are efforts there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

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