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

William James

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

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

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