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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

William James

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Example Human Nature Proud
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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