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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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