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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Laughter Men
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long

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