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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
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 ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

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