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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs

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