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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

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
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time

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

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