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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.

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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