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

William James

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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Determine Feelings May
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
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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief 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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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

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