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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

William James

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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