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

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Models Role Virtue
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want

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

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