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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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 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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

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