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Vote: | A man is literally what he thinks. |
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Vote: | All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. |
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Vote: | Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. |
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Vote: | Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. |
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Vote: | He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. |
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Vote: | The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. |
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Vote: | To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. |
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Vote: | We do not attract what we want, but what we are. |
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Vote: | Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. |
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Vote: | Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. |
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Vote: | You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. |
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Vote: | 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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James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 – February 18, 1925) is the author of many novels and short stories, including A Kentucky Cardinal. Many of his novels and short stories capture the spirit, and dialects, of his native Kentucky in the United States. He was a part of the local color era, when writers sought to incorporate the popular vernacular in their works.
Allen was born near Lexington, Kentucky, and his formative years were spent there in the eras that impress upon his work—Ante-bellum, American Civil War, and Reconstruction. He graduated from Transylvania University in 1872, delivering the Salutatorian address in Latin. Allen sought to accurately transcribe the accents of the characters. In 1893 Allen moved to New York City, where he lived until his death, making his living as an author. He was a contributor to Harpers, The Atlantic, and other popular magazines of the time.
He has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."
External links *JAMES LANE ALLEN by George Brosi
*James Lane Allen Library
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