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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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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Example Human Nature Proud
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere

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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