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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

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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