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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

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
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 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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War

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