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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

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen

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