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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

William James

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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

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