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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
[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
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth

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