You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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