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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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 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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Art Men Philosophy
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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