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"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"It does not require money to live neat, clean, and dignified."

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."

"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."


"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."


"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."


"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."


"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."
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