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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
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
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
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

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