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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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