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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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