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

William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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