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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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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Example Human Nature Proud
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

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