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

William James

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

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