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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

William James

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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy

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