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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

William James

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude 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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