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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity

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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