Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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