In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.William James
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James
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