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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

William James

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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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.
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Happiness Laughter 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
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life

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