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

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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

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