At each moment of man's life, he is either a King or a slave. As he surrenders to a wrong appetite, to any human weakness; as he falls prostrate in hopeless subjection to any condition, to any environment, to any failure, he is a slave. As he day by day crushes out human weakness, masters opposing elements within him, and day by day recreates a new self from the sin and folly of his past, —then he is a King. He is a King ruling with wisdom over himself —Alexander conquered the whole world except, —Alexander. Emperor of the earth, he was the servile slave of his own passions...FROM THE BOOKS.
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