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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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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Becoming Gone Instant
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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

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