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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

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