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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

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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 ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance

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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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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