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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

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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

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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