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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

William James

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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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