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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMES

Blessed Deception Giving Up
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No

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