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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

William James

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical

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