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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMES

Community Friendship Sympathy
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Contradiction Happiness Natural
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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