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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

William James

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth

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