With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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