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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

William James

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical

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