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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

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
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
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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Habit Principles Thinking
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
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
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

The strenuous life tastes better

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