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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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