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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use

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