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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

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
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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 attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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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