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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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