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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
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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Educational Men Philosophy
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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Culture Life Real
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

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