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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

William James

In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
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 lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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 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

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