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

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
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
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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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Becoming Gone Instant
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet

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