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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

William James

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

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