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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

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