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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.

William James

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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

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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