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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

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