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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

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