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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.

William James

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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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