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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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 most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection

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