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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Laughter Men
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Education Excellence
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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

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