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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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

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