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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization

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