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History is a bath of blood.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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 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

History is a bath of blood.

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