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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy

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