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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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