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New habits can be launched.

William James

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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process

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