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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

William James

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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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Book Cat Conservations Dog
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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