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

William James

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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