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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.

William James

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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering

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