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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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 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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties

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