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

William James

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May

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