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

William James

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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
[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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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

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

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