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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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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Children Effortless Reading Sky

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