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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

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 are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
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
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings

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