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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

William James

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Laughter Men
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will

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