Wallace Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich (1910)

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Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.

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Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

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The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

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"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

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No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

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Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

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Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

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It is really not the number of things you do, but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.

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It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.

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The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life.

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You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

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The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

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The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.

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The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.

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But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.

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It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

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Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.

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There is a law of gratitude, and if you are to get the results you seek, it is absolutely necessary that you should observe this law.

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The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

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The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

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When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.

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You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

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