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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

William James

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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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