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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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