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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

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Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 11th, 1842

Died: August 26th, 1910

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