The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.William James
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Modern man ... has not ceased to be credulous ... the need to believe haunts him.
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