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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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

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