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11. You Are What You Do alike supreme consequence flourishing apply ingrained beget prosper whim If the past has taught us anything, it is that every cause brings effect--- every action has a ______________. This thought, in my opinion, is the moral foundation of the universe; it ______________ equally in this world and the next. We Chinese have a saying: “If a man plants melons, he will reap melons; if he _______________ beans, he will reap beans.” And this is true of every man’s life: good _____________ good, and evil leads to evil. True enough, the sun shines on the saint and sinner ____________, and too often it seems that the wicked wax and _____________. But we can say with certitude that, with the individuals as with the nation, the ______________ of the wicked is an illusion, for, unceasingly, life keeps books on us all. In the end, we are all the sum total of our actions. Character cannot be _______________, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to meet the _______________ of the moment. Like the markings on wood which are _______________ in the very heart of the tree, character requires time and nurture for growth and development. Thus also, day by day, we write our own destiny, for inexorably we become what we do. This, I believe, is the _____________ logic and the law of life. 12. Youth enthusiasm supple undaunted despair faith appetite merely predominance vigor Youth is not just a stage of life; it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and _____________ knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a ____________ of the emotions. It is the freshness of the deep spring of life. Youth means the ______________ of courage over timidity, of adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old ____________ by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Yeas may wrinkle the skin, but to give up ___________