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Just as electricity will turn the wheels of industry, and render useful service if
used constructively; or snuff out life if wrongly used, so will the law of auto-sug-
gestion lead you to peace and prosperity, or down into the valley of misery, fail-
ure, and death, according to your degree of understanding and application of it.

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NAPOLEON HILL THINK AND GROW RICH

If you fill your mind with FEAR, doubt and unbelief in your ability to connect
with, and use the forces of Infinite Intelligence, the law of auto-suggestion will
take this spirit of unbelief and use it as a pattern by which your subconscious
mind will translate it into its physical equivalent.

THIS STATEMENT IS AS TRUE AS THE STATEMENT THAT TWO

AND TWO ARE FOUR!

Like the wind which carries one ship East, and another West, the law of auto-sug-
gestion will lift you up or pull you down, according to the way you set your sails
of THOUGHT.

The law of auto-suggestion, through which any person may rise to altitudes of
achievement which stagger the imagination, is well described in the following
verse:

"If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don't

If you like to win, hut you think you can't,

It is almost certain you won't.

"If you think you'll lose, you're lost

For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will-
It's all in the state of mind.

"If you think you are outclassed, you are,

You've got to think high to rise,

You've got to be sure of yourself before