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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions

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