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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality

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