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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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