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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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