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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

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
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
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

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