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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

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
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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