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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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