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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

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

Happiness Laughter Men
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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 first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology

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