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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
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
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

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