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

William James

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
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding

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

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