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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization

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