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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge

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