It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
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The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
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Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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