The faith circle is so congruous with human nature that the only explanation of the veto that intellectualists pass upon it must be sought in the offensive character to them of the faiths of certain concrete persons.
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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
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