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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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