BE GOOD TO YOURSELF

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Orison Swett Marden. BE GOOD TO YOURSELF

BE GOOD TO YOURSELF

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Table of Contents

Chapter I. Be Good To Yourself

Chapter II. Economy That Costs Too Much

Chapter III. Where Does Your Energy Go?

Chapter IV. The Strain To Keep Up Appearances

Chapter V. Nature As A Joy-Builder

Chapter VI. Eight Hundred Sixty-Nine Kinds Of Liars

Chapter VII. The Quarrelling Habit

Chapter VIII. The Right To Be Disagreeable

Chapter IX. The Good-Will Habit

Chapter X. Love As A Tonic

Chapter XI. Keeping A Level Head

Chapter XII. Getting The Best Out Of Employees

Chapter XIII. Don’t Let Your Past Spoil Your Future

Chapter XIV. Almost A Success

Chapter XV. The Born Leader

Chapter XVI. The Passion For Achievement

Chapter XVII. Fun In The Home

Chapter XVIII. Neglect Your Business But Not Your Boy

Chapter XIX. Mother

Chapter XX. The Home As A School Of Manners

Chapter XXI. Self-Improvement As An Investment

Chapter XXII. A Religious Slot Machine

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Orison Swett Marden

Chapter II. Economy That Costs Too Much

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Of what use is ability if you can not use it, of forces that are demoralized, weakened by petty, false economies; what use is great brain power, even genius, if you are physically weak, if your vitality is so reduced either by vicious living or lack of proper care, that your energy becomes exhausted with the very least effort?

To be confronted by a great opportunity of which you are powerless to take advantage, because you have let your energy leak away in useless, vicious ways, or to feel that you can only take hold of your great chance tremblingly, weakly, with doubt instead of assurance and a consciousness of vigor, is one of the most disheartening experiences that can ever come to a human being.

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