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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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
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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Islands Roots Sea Underground
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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