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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
[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

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