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

William James

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want

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

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