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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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