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

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance

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