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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly

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