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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

William James

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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
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 community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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