Poems List

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
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