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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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