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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics

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