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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

William James

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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

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