Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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