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

William James

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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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

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