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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
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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Health Love Wings
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis 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
[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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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

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