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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

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