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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.

William James

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking

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