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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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