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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
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
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
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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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