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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World

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