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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

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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