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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational

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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