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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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 strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

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