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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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