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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

William James

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
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
There 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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Finals Lasts Men
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two

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