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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason

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