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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal

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