The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves have been flown for religious ideals.
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The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.William James
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
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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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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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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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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, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
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