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

William James

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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