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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

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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Evil Prove Ruling
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth

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