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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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