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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

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