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You can ever win a prize.

"Life's battles don't always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!"

Observe the words which have been emphasized, and you will catch the deep
meaning which the poet had in mind.

Somewhere in your make-up (perhaps in the cells of your brain) there lies sleep-
ing, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry
you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

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NAPOLEON HILL THINK AND GROW RICH

Just as a master musician may cause the most beautiful strains of music to pour
forth from the strings of a violin, so may you arouse the genius which lies asleep
in your brain, and cause it to drive you upward to whatever goal you may wish to
achieve.

Abraham Lincoln was a failure at everything he tried, until he was well past the
age of forty. He was a Mr. Nobody from Nowhere, until a great experience came
into his life, aroused the sleeping genius within his heart and brain, and gave the
world one of its really great men. That "experience" was mixed with the emotions
of sorrow and LOVE. It came to him through Anne Rutledge, the only woman
whom he ever truly loved.

It is a known fact that the emotion of LOVE is closely akin to the state of mind
known as FAITH, and this for the reason that Love comes very near to trans-
lating one's thought impulses into their spiritual equivalent. During his work of
research, the author discovered, from the analysis of the life-work and achieve-
ments of hundreds of men of outstanding accomplishment, that there was the
influence of a woman's love back of nearly EVERY ONE OF THEM. The emotion
of love, in the human heart and brain, creates a favorable field of magnetic attrac-
tion, which causes an influx of the higher and finer vibrations which are afloat in
the ether.

If you wish evidence of the power of FAITH, study the achievements of men and
women who have employed it. At the head of the list comes the Nazarene. Chris-