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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real

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