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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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