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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World

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