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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMES

Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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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Choices Differences Men Savage
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
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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Book Cat Conservations Dog
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings

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