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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

William James

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Positive Success
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre

There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

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