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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

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