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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

William James

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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