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History is a bath of blood.

William James

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
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 world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time

History is a bath of blood.

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