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

William James

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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