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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.

William James

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual

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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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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