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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

William James

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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking

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