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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

William James

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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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 hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

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