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

William James

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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 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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress

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