There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMESSince you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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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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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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