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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

William James

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMES

Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

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