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History is a bath of blood.

William James

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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