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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

William James

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

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