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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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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