Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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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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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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New habits can be launched.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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