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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

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Dog Littles Writing
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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 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
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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