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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort 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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth

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