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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
[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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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