The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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