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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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