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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

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