Action and feeling go together and by regulating the action which is under the more direct control of the will, we can regulate the feeling, which is not.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.William James
Failure, then, failure so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out.
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
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Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. 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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