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

William James

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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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

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