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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

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
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMES

Asceticism Ease Expression
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men 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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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