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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

William James

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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