We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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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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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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