Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of …

William James
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet. ✨ William James (1985). The Varieties of Religious Experience, p.119, Harvard University Press
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