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

William James

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest

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

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