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

William James

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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 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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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