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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

William James

Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

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