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

William James

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics

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