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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Act Chosen Equally Ethical
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Both Both Sides Bring Closer
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Another Beforehand Come Enough
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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.

Behalf Caution Certain Errors
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
Life Outlast Something Spend
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

About Call Consciousness Different
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action Control Direct Feeling
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Belief creates the actual fact.
Actual Belief Creates Fact
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Believe Leaf Less Stars
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Enough Learned Like Those
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Again Age Character Like
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Almost Devout Esteem Facts
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Belief Concerning Doubt Faith
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Always Anything Believe Everyone
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Every Law Contrary Potent
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Actually Catch Character Darker
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I accept reality and dare not question it.

Accept Dare Question Realiy
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity

ArExpression Glory Letters Light
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
Depends Life Liver Living
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Cling Doomed Even Find
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Door God Grace Subliminal
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance Any Consequences First
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Said Several Thousand Universe
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius

About Expressive Freshness Illiterate
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Life Endure Personal
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Bulk Class Few Lands
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Conqueror Ever Exterior Life
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Both Composition Dialect English
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Behold Give Lectures Little
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Simple
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Soul Cool Universe
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Dreams Each Fair Light
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Ability Attitude Important Success
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Shaft Archer
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Any Becomes Fails Fulfill
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Nervous Stage Help But
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Any Anything Believes Cheap
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Feels Force Full He
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I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
Black Like Johnny Cash
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Looking Nice But Comfort
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

After Cheap Pay Price
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Could Decide Drunkenness Experience
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life Living Make Say
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