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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity

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