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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use

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