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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

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