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History is a bath of blood.

William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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

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