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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
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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Mean Reality Truth
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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