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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration

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