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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality

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