James Lane Allen
James Lane Allen
James Lane Allenwas an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 December 1849
CountryUnited States of America
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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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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
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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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The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.
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I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.
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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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The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.
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The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.
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We do not attract what we want, But what we are.
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You cannot travel within and stand still without.
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The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.
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You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.