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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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
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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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