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Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Horsen-Swat Martin, published in 1910.

Faith is an optimist because it sees the way out. Doubt is a pessimist because it cannot see the way ahead,

and it's afraid because it can't cope with the uncertain.

Faith opens the door of ability and develops superiority.

The habit of expecting great things of ourselves calls out the best that is in us.

The mind must lead.

The pattern precedes the weaving of the web.

The ideal must go ahead of us.

We always face in the direction of our faith.

It is what we believe we can do that we accomplish or tend to.

If we analyze great achievements and the people who accomplish them,

the most prominent quality in evidence is self-confidence.

The person who has absolute faith in their ability to do what they undertake is the most

likely to succeed, even when such confidence seems to outsiders audacious, if not foolhardy.

It is not only a belief in themselves that enables such people to get results. It is also the effect that

self-faith has on others. When a person feels a sense of mastery, they talk confidence,

radiate victory, and overcome doubts and others. Everybody believes that they can do the thing they undertake.

The world believes in the conqueror,

the one who carries victory in their very appearance.

We believe in people who impress us with their power,

and they cannot do this without a strong self-faith. They cannot do it when their

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