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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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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