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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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