Quote by William James
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. – William James

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James

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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. – C.S. Lewis

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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing Gods thing. – Thomas Howard

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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be. – Christopher Marlowe

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Peace without justice is tyranny. – William Allen White

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