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

William James

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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

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