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Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

James Truslow Adams

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

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About Author
James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949) was an American writer and historian. He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars. He popularized the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that att...

James Truslow Adams

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that att...

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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

James Truslow Adams

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

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The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

James Truslow Adams

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

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As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to tru...

James Truslow Adams

As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to tru...

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