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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.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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

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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