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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the inspirational living podcast.

Today's talk was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

The musical instrument which is out of tune can yet give from time to time a pure sweet note. Likewise within

the coarsest mind, a noble sentiment responds every now and then to the majesty of some manifestation

of nature. There is in every mind, an alcove which imprisons our ideals.

We may bold and bar it so that it is most difficult to penetrate.

Yet every once in a while, some touch of memory or conscience releases the spring and gives a glimpse of the angel within us.

In such a place we keep our holiest thoughts and memories, the mental pictures of our mothers are there,

the records of our baby prayers and our youthful hopes.

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