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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.

William James

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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

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