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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

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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