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TO A PUPIL.

1   IS reform needed? Is it through you?

The greater the reform needed, the greater the person-          ality you need to accomplish it.

2   You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes,          blood, complexion, clean and sweet?

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Do you not see how it would serve to have such a Body          and Soul, that when you enter the crowd, an          atmosphere of desire and command enters with          you, everyone is impress'd with your per-          sonality?

3   O the magnet! the flesh over and over!

Go, dear friend! if need be, give up all else, and com-          mence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality,          self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness;

Rest not, till you rivet and publish yourself of your          own personality.

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