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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
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
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men

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