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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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