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

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Life Stay Strong Ties
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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 minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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