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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

William James

History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks

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