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

William James

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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