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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.



The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.



Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.



Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task



When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.



An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.



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.



There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.



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.



Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.



Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.



Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.



There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.



The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.



We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate.








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