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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

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
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 emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World

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