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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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