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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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