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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality

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