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

William James

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness

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

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