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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

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men

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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