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The
dreamers
are
the
saviors
of
the
world.
As
the
visible
world
is
sustained
by
the
invisible,
so
men,
through
all
their
trials
and
sins
and
sordid
vocations,
are
nourished
by
the
beautiful
visions
of
their
solitary
dreamers.
Humanity
cannot
forget
its
dreamers.
It
cannot
let
their
ideals
fade
and
die.
It
lives
in
them.
It
knows
them
in
the
realities
which
it
shall
one
day
see
and
know.
Composer,
sculptor,
painter,
poet,
prophet,
sage,
these
are
the
makers
of
the
afterworld,
the
architects
of
heaven.
The
world
is
beautiful
because
they
have
lived;
without
them,
laboring
humanity
would
perish.
He
who
cherishes
a
beautiful
vision,
a
lofty
ideal
in
his
heart,
will
one
day
realize
it.
Columbus
cherished
a
vision
of
another
world,
and
he
discovered
it.
Copernicus
fostered
the
vision
of
a
multiplicity
of
worlds
and
a
wider
universe,
and
he
revealed
it.
Buddha
beheld
the
vision
of
a
spiritual
world
of
stainless
beauty
and
perfect
peace,
and
he
entered
into
it.
Cherish
your
visions.
Cherish
your
ideals.
Cherish
the
music
that
stirs
in
your
heart,
the
beauty
that
forms
in
your
mind,
the
loveliness
that
drapes
your
purest
thoughts,
for
out
of
them
will
grow
all
delightful
conditions,
all
heavenly
environment;
of
these,
if
you
but
remain
true
to
them,
your
world
will
at
last
be
built.
To
desire
is
to
obtain;
to
aspire
is
to
achieve.
Shall
man's
basest
desires
receive
the
fullest
measure
of
gratification,
and
his
purest
aspirations
starve
for
lack
of
sustenance?
Such
is
not
the
Law.
Such
a
condition
of
things
can
never
obtain
-
"Ask
and
receive."
Dream
lofty
dreams,
and
as
you
dream,
so
shall
you
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.
The
greatest
achievement
was
at
first
and
for
a
time
a
dream.
The
oak
sleeps
in
the
acorn;
the
bird
waits
in
the
egg;
and
in
the
highest
vision
of
the
soul
a
waking
angel
stirs.
Dreams
are
the
seedlings
of
realities.
Your
circumstances
may
be
uncongenial,
but
they
shall
not
long
remain
so
if
you
but
perceive
an
Ideal
and
strive
to
reach
it.
You
cannot
travel
within
and
stand
still
without.
Here
is
a
youth
hard
pressed
by
poverty
and
labor;
confined
long
hours
in
an
unhealthy
workshop;
unschooled,
and
lacking
all
the
arts
of
refinement.
But
he
dreams
of
better
things.
He
thinks
of
intelligence,
of
refinement,
of
grace
and
beauty.
He
conceives
of,
mentally
builds
up,
an
ideal
condition
of
life.
The
vision
of
the
wider
liberty
and
a
larger
scope
takes
possession
of
him;
unrest
urges
him
to
action,
and
he
utilizes
all
his
spare
time
and
means,
small
though
they
are,
to
the
development
of
his
latent
powers
and
resources.
Very
soon
so
altered
has
his
mind
become
that
the
workshop
can
no
longer
hold
him.
It
has
become
so
out
of
harmony
with
his
mentality
that
it
falls
out
of
his
life
as
a
garment
is
cast
aside,
and
with
the
growth
of
opportunities
which
fit
the
scope
of
his
expanding
powers,
he
passes
out
of
it
forever.
Years
later
we
see
this
youth
as
a
full-grown
man.
We
find
him
a
master
of
certain
forces
of
the
mind
which
he
wields
with
world-wide
influence
and
almost
unequaled
power.
In
his
hands
he
holds
the
cords
of
gigantic
responsibilities.
He
speaks,
and
lo!
lives
are
changed.
Men
and
women
hang
upon
his
words
and
remold
their
characters,
and,
sunlike,
he
becomes
the
fixed
and
luminous
center
around
which
innumerable
destinies
revolve.
He
has
realized
the
Vision
of
his
youth.
He
has
become
one
with
his
Ideal.
And
you,
too,
youthful
reader,
will
realize
the
Vision
(not
the
idle
wish)
of
your
heart,
be
it
base
or
beautiful,
or
a
mixture
of
both,
for
you
will
always
gravitate
toward
that
which
you
secretly
most
love.
Into
your
hands
will
be
placed
the
exact
results
of
your
own
thoughts;
you
will
receive
that
which
you
earn,
no
more,
no
less.
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.
In
the
beautiful
words
of
Stanton
Kirkham
Dave,
"You
may
be
keeping
accounts,
and
presently
you
shall
walk
out
of
the
door
that
for
so
long
has
seemed
to
you
the
barrier
of
your
ideals,
and
shall
find
yourself
before
an
audience
-
the
pen
still
behind
your
ear,
the
ink
stains
on
your
fingers
-
and
then
and
there
shall
pour
out
the
torrent
of
your
inspiration.
You
may
be
driving
sheep,
and
you
shall
wander
to
the
city
-
bucolic
and
open
mouthed;
shall
wander
under
the
intrepid
guidance
of
the
spirit
into
the
studio
of
the
master,
and
after
a
time
he
shall
say,
'I
have
nothing
more
to
teach
you.'
And
now
you
have
become
the
master,
who
did
so
recently
dream
of
great
things
while
driving
sheep.
You
shall
lay
down
the
saw
and
the
plane
to
take
upon
yourself
the
regeneration
of
the
world."
The
thoughtless,
the
ignorant,
and
the
indolent,
seeing
only
the
apparent
effects
of
things
and
not
the
things
themselves,
talk
of
luck,
of
fortune,
and
chance.
See
a
man
grow
rich,
they
say,
"How
lucky
he
is!"
Observing
another
become
intellectual,
they
exclaim,
"How
highly
favored
he
is!"
And
noting
the
saintly
character
and
wide
influence
of
another,
the
remark,
"How
chance
aids
him
at
every
turn!"
They
do
not
see
the
trials
and
failures
and
struggles
which
these
men
have
voluntarily
encountered
in
order
to
gain
their
experience.
They
have
no
knowledge
of
the
sacrifices
they
have
made,
of
the
undaunted
efforts
they
have
put
forth,
of
the
faith
they
have
exercised,
that
they
might
overcome
the
apparently
insurmountable,
and
realize
the
Vision
of
their
heart.
They
do
not
know
the
darkness
and
the
heartaches;
they
only
see
the
light
and
joy,
and
call
it
"luck";
do
not
see
the
long
and
arduous
journey,
but
only
behold
the
pleasant
goal,
and
call
it
"good
fortune";
do
not
understand
the
process,
but
only
perceive
the
result,
and
call
it
"chance."
In
all
human
affairs
there
are
efforts,
and
there
are
results,
and
the
strength
of
the
effort
is
the
measure
of
the
result.
Chance
is
not.
"Gifts,"
powers,
material,
intellectual,
and
spiritual
possessions
are
the
fruits
of
effort.
They
are
thoughts
completed,
objects
accomplished,
visions
realized.
The
vision
that
you
glorify
in
your
mind,
the
Ideal
that
you
enthrone
in
your
heart
-
this
you
will
build
your
life
by,
this
you
will
become.
on
to
Chapter
VII:
Serenity...
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