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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

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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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