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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

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