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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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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Becoming Gone Instant
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical

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