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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

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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth

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