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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

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