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
WILLIAM JAMES[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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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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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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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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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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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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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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