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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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