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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

William James

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES

Destiny Men Tree
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship

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