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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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