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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

William James

The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

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