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

William James

That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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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Anticipation Brave Use
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen

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

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