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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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
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 all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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