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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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