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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking

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