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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

William James

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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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

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