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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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