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

William James

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage

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

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